Payments & Settlements

Structural Regulation

BOJ, FSA Publish Findings on LIBOR Transition Progress

By Editors | 15/03/2020

About 50% of the 6.3 quadrillion yen in notional derivatives referencing LIBOR will mature after 2021, but “very few” contracts incorporate fallback provisions.

Liquidity Risk

RBI to Provide Liquidity in Forex Market as Rupee Crashes

By Editors | 13/03/2020

The RBI will offer USD/INR sell/buy swaps to bolster FX  market liquidity, as foreign investors withdraw from India amid growing concerns over Covid-19’s economic impact.

Payments & Settlements

HKMA Invites Tenders to Enhance Payments, Securities Infrastructures

By Editors | 09/03/2020

The HKMA is inviting tenders to provide consultancy services to help enhance its core financial market infrastructures, particularly in the areas of payments and securities.

Cryptocurrency

Supreme Court Overturns RBI Circular Barring Banks from Crypto Dealings

By Editors | 04/03/2020

The ruling is hailed as a big win for the crypto sector. But, the government  has yet to act on an interministerial committee’s recommendations to ban all private cryptocurrencies.

Payments & Settlements

SWIFT Reports Near Doubling of Year-on-year gpi Traffic

By Editors | 03/03/2020

Nearly two-thirds of all payments traffic on SWIFT is now sent via gpi, with the majority of transactions credited to end beneficiaries within 30 minutes or less.

Payments & Settlements

Cross-border Payments Front and Center in BIS Quarterly Review

By Editors | 02/03/2020

The BIS is exploring how to solve key shortcomings related to access and cross-border payments, including to address the global decline in correspondent banking.

Payments & Settlements

Thailand Raises Currency Repatriation Threshold Five-Fold to $1m

By Editors | 02/03/2020

The move is aimed at achieving more balanced capital flows and at easing the strength of the Thai baht, which hurt the domestic economy last year.

Clearing & Post-Trade

Indonesia CSD Goes Live with Nasdaq Technology

By Editors | 28/02/2020

The new CSD platform operates at a rate 40 times faster than the previous system, with the ability to manage up to 80,000 settlement instructions per minute.

Payments & Settlements

RBNZ Launches New Payment Settlement System

By Editors | 27/02/2020

Replacing a 20-year old system, the new payment settlement platform comprises an RTGS system known as ESAS 2.0 and a central securities depository called NZClear 2.0.