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Clearing & Post-Trade
CSRC Grants QCCP Status to Major Futures Exchanges
By Editors | 29/01/2019
The CSRC says the move demonstrates China’s active promotion of the CPMI-IOSCO Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures and its intent to internationalise its futures markets.
Structural Regulation
S&P Approved to Enter China’s Credit Rating Market
By Editors | 29/01/2019
The People’s Bank of China has approved S&P Global Ratings to operate locally in its latest move to open up financial markets.
Clearing & Post-Trade
Hong Kong Seeks Market Views on Paperless Securities Market
By Editors | 29/01/2019
Hong Kong is seeking industry feedback on plans to introduce new systems for a paperless securities market to enhance global competitiveness and increase market efficiency.
Structural Regulation
EU Benchmark Regulation – Not Just a European Problem
By Gregory Campbell | 29/01/2019
APAC benchmark administrators hoping to retain or grow their user base in the EU must take action now to gain approval before 2020, say PwC’s Gregory Campbell and Daniela Bunea.
Structural Regulation
China Appoints Veteran Banker to Head Securities Regulator
By Editors | 28/01/2019
In an unexpected reshuffle, ICBC chairman Yi Huiman has replaced Liu Shiyu as head of the China Securities Regulatory Commission.
Structural Regulation
HKEX Seeks Faster Time-to-Market for IPOs
By Editors | 28/01/2019
The exchange is considering shortening the time it takes to price new shares and to bring pricing closer to the market trading, to address concerns that stocks tend to fall sharply after listing.
Clearing & Post-Trade
SEBI Grants QCCP Status to Gift City Clearing Corporations
By Editors | 28/01/2019
India International Clearing Corporation (IFSC) Limited and NSE IFSC Clearing Corporation – wholly owned subsidiaries of the BSE and NSE, respectively – have been granted qualifying central counterparty status.
Structural Regulation
China to Grant More Foreign Firms Majority Ownership in Securities
By Editors | 28/01/2019
“In the next six months you will see more licences being granted,” CSRC vice chairman Fang Xinghai told Bloomberg on the the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Structural Regulation
ICE White Paper Introduces New LIBOR Alternative
By Editors | 28/01/2019
The ‘US Dollar ICE Bank Yield Index’ is fully transaction-based and designed to measure the yields at which investors are willing to invest US dollar funds on a wholesale, unsecured basis.
Clearing & Post-Trade
HKEX Enables Central Clearing for Deliverable FX Forwards, Swaps
By Manesh Samtani | 25/01/2019
Enabled by Traiana infrastructure, HKEX OTC Clear is offering the first clearing service for deliverable FX forwards and swaps in the USD/CNH and USD/HKD currency pairs.
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