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

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”.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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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