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Trading & Investment
BSE India Receives Approval to Set Up Social Stock Exchange
By Editors | 10/10/2022
The social stock exchange will allow direct listings from non-profit organisations and for-profit social enterprises.
Trading & Investment
HKIFA Calls for Review of MPF Investment Framework
By Editors | 10/10/2022
The HKIFA is calling for relaxations to allow MPF funds to invest in a wider range of asset classes, and to provide investment flexibility to those already in retirement.
Structural Regulation
FASB Extends LIBOR Accounting Relief for Two More Years
By Editors | 10/10/2022
The relief delays more onerous accounting treatment that borrowers with legacy LIBOR loans would face if the relief was not extended.
Trading & Investment
Korea May Start Naming Foreign Firms Engaged in Illegal Short-Selling
By Editors | 09/10/2022
Local securities firms are required to notify investors if they are fined for violating short selling-related rules, but this is not the case for foreign investors.
Market Abuse
FSA Bars SMBC Nikko from Block Trades for 3 Months
By Editors | 09/10/2022
SMBC Nikko Securities was also found to have shared confidential information of several corporate clients without their consent with its parent’s banking unit.
Fraud, Scams & Cybercrime
Malaysia Budget 2023 to Tackle Scams, Promote Capital Market
By Editors | 09/10/2022
Budget 2023 includes measures to strengthen the capital market, protect against scams and cyber threats, and drive the ESG and climate change agenda.
Cryptocurrency
Interest Rate Caps Do Not Apply to Bitcoin Loans, Korean Court Rules
By Editors | 09/10/2022
The case involves a loan worth 30 bitcoins with an annual interest rate of 60 percent. Korean law caps interest rates on loans at 24 percent.
Conduct, Culture & Accountability
RBI Directs CICs to Appoint Internal Ombudsman by April 2023
By Editors | 08/10/2022
Clients of regulated entities will have a free alternative dispute resolution for grievances against credit information companies.
Cryptocurrency
CME to Launch New Crypto Reference Rates, Indices
By Editors | 08/10/2022
New reference rates and real-time indices will be introduced for AVAX, FIL and XTZ. The launch will not include tradable futures products.
PEPs & Sanctions
LME Considers Banning Russian Metals from Warehouses
By Editors | 08/10/2022
Even without direct sanctions, a significant number of metals consumers are expressing an unwillingness to accept Russian metal in 2023, LME says.
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