Markets & Infrastructure

    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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