Markets & Infrastructure

Trading & Investment

SFC Expands Listed Structured Fund Offerings in Hong Kong

By Manesh Samtani | 24/01/2025

The SFC will allow product issuers to offer single-stock leveraged and inverse products and defined outcome-listed structured funds

Structural Regulation

Morgan Stanley Futures Unit Commences Operations in China

By Mark Johnston | 24/01/2025

Morgan Stanley is the 2nd major US firm after JPMorgan to have a derivatives unit in China, which scrapped foreign ownership caps for futures companies in 2020.

Trading & Investment

FSS Korea Designates LuxSE as ‘Major Overseas Market’

By Mark Johnston | 24/01/2025

Korean companies meeting certain conditions don’t have to submit a domestic securities registration statement to issue foreign currency bonds on LuxSE

Market Risk

JSCC’s Transition to VaR Margin Models Has Improved Efficiency: JPX

By Manesh Samtani | 24/01/2025

The transition from SPAN to JSCC-VaR has improved risk management and margin efficiency for listed derivatives, but further refinements are needed.

Conduct, Culture & Accountability

Chinese Regulators Should Introduce a Stewardship Code: Report

By Manesh Samtani | 24/01/2025

Fidelity International’s Flora Wang says the implementation of such a stewardship code in China would be a “decisively positive step”.

Tokenisation

BoCom Become First Chinese Bank to Issue Digitally Native Bond

By Mark Johnston | 23/01/2025

Bank of Communications issued the $300mn bond via its Hong Kong branch using the HSBC Orion digital asset platform.

Clearing & Post-Trade

ESMA Launches Governance Structure to Support Transition to T+1

By Nithya Subramanian | 23/01/2025

The new governance structure establishes committees and specialised groups to address the regulatory and legal implications of the transition.

Trading & Investment

CSRC Proposes New Algorithmic Trading Rules for Futures Market

By Mark Johnston | 23/01/2025

The CSRC has unveiled draft regulations aimed at tightening control over algorithmic trading in the futures market.

Trading & Investment

China Unveils Plans to Increase ‘Long-term Funds’ in Stock Market

By Manesh Samtani | 23/01/2025

The plan includes measures to encourage insurers, pension funds, and other medium- to long-term capital funds to increase their stock market investments