Markets & Infrastructure

    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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