Markets & Infrastructure

Structural Regulation

SEBI Clears Way for India Exchange Listings

By Samuel Riding | 01/12/2015

Regulator clarifies listing framework for initial public offerings by stock exchanges, depository firms.

AI Risk & Governance

Entering the Regtech Era

By Samuel Riding | 30/11/2015

In a new research report three Asia Pacific-based academics offer answers to the vexing question of how to regulate financial technology.

Structural Regulation

US Investment Banks Lobby on BSE, NSE Listings

By Samuel Riding | 30/11/2015

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley among 17 firms lobbying Indian government for faster progress on listings of India’s two stock exchanges.

Structural Regulation

China to Ease Access to Shanghai FTZ

By Samuel Riding | 30/11/2015

Premier Li Keqiang wants negative list approach to be extended to overseas financial services firms.

Structural Regulation

SEBI Pushes Commodity Exchange Consolidation

By Samuel Riding | 27/11/2015

Regional commodity exchanges have two years to demutualise, will be brought under securities contract regulation by 2018.

Structural Regulation

CSRC Orders Halt to Swap Lending

By Samuel Riding | 27/11/2015

Stock market regulator asks brokers to end practice of using swaps and OTC contracts to finance stock purchases.

Cybersecurity

CPMI-IOSCO Issue Financial Markets Cyber Guidance

By Samuel Riding | 26/11/2015

Joint consultation paper focuses on international cooperation in pre-empting and reacting to cyber-attacks.

Conduct, Culture & Accountability

SGX Reviewing Listed Companies’ Corporate Governance

By Samuel Riding | 25/11/2015

Singapore exchange reviewing compliance with corporate governance rules to bolster credibility as regulator.

Structural Regulation

Korea to Ease Foreign Bank Regulations

By Samuel Riding | 25/11/2015

Financial statements of foreign lenders operating in Korea will no longer be scrutinised by FSS.