Payments & Settlements

    Reporting on regulatory developments, innovations, and risks in payment systems and settlement processes essential for the transfer of money and securities.

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    Payments & Settlements

    ABA Calls for Swift Passage of Payment System Reforms

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 05/02/2025

    ABA CEO Anna Bligh said the reforms “first flagged over 1,200 days ago” are “urgently needed” and can be passed “this sitting fortnight”.

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    Payments & Settlements

    SEBI Proposes to Assign Unique UPI Handles for Securities Market

    By Nithya Subramanian | 04/02/2025

    Assigning unique UPI handles to SEBI-registered market intermediaries will allow investors to verify that their payments are going to authorised entities

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    Payments & Settlements

    BNM Revises Regulatory Framework for Electronic Money Issuers

    By Nithya Subramanian | 04/02/2025

    BNM said the revisions will help enhance safety, reliability, and public confidence in e-money and digital payment solutions.

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    Clearing & Post-Trade

    ASIC Commences Investigation into Dec 2024 Market Disruption

    By Manesh Samtani | 04/02/2025

    The investigation is looking into whether the market disruption at ASX constituted a breach of its obligations as a CS facility licensee.

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    Tokenisation

    Thai SEC Aiming to Fully Digitalise Bond Trading Using DLT

    By Mark Johnston | 04/02/2025

    The SEC plans to issue new regulations to facilitate the issuance of electronic securities and online trading of tokenised debt securities

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    Structural Regulation

    Bangladesh Issues New Guidelines on Offshore Banking Business

    By Editors | 03/02/2025

    Banks must obtain a licence for each OBU. Existing OBUs are asked to submit their approval letters to Bangladesh Bank within two months.

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    Clearing & Post-Trade

    FMSB Publishes Standard for Sharing Standard Settlement Instructions

    By Manesh Samtani | 02/02/2025

    The Standard aims to address operational risks caused by incorrect or missing SSIs, one of the biggest causes of settlement fails.

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    Clearing & Post-Trade

    UK Confirms 11 October 2027 Target Date for Adoption of T+1

    By Nithya Subramanian | 02/02/2025

    Andrew Douglas, Chairman of the UK Accelerated Settlement Taskforce, said the UK, EU and Switzerland are now aiming for the same implementation date

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    Clearing & Post-Trade

    KSD and Kuwait Clearing Company Sign MoU to Enhance Cooperation

    By Mark Johnston | 02/02/2025

    The MoU was signed to strengthen collaboration on improving securities settlement systems and enhancing infrastructure.

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    Payments & Settlements

    RBI Tightens Penalties Framework for Payment System Offences

    By Nithya Subramanian | 01/02/2025

    The framework includes monetary penalties and compounding offences to tighten compliance in the digital payments sector.

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