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Reporting on regulatory frameworks and rules governing market design, authorisation, and oversight of key financial market participants and infrastructures.
Structural Regulation
Thai SEC Seeks to Smooth Transition to Mandatory Pension
By Editors | 05/12/2021
The SEC proposes changes to reduce the chance of voluntary provident funds being dissolved or liquidated, which it says could impact THB 1.3 trillion in capital market investments.
Trading & Investment
SEBI Proposes to Ease Rules on Preferential Share Issuance
By Editors | 05/12/2021
The regulator proposes relaxed pricing norms, a shorter lock-in period, and to allow promoters to pledge shares for loans during the lock-in period.
Structural Regulation
Shanghai, Shenzhen Bourses Crack Down on Shell Companies
By Darien Choong | 04/12/2021
The new delisting system includes an indicator to measure the sustainability and operating ability of a listed company, to help eliminate shell companies.
Conduct, Culture & Accountability
SEBI Directs Market to Display Investor Charter, Complaints Data
By Editors | 04/12/2021
From January 2022, stock exchanges, merchant bankers and RTAs will need to publish the new investor charter as well as complaints data on their websites.
Cybersecurity
Thai SEC to Enhance Capital Market Resilience to Cyber Risk
By Editors | 04/12/2021
Under revised rules, market participants are required to and enhance cybersecurity control measures, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing and third-party access controls.
Alternative Markets
Shanghai to Pilot Secondary Market for PE, VC Funds
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 04/12/2021
The pilot is being launched at the Shanghai Equity Exchange to experiment with ways to expand the exit channels available to investors in PE and VC funds.
Trading & Investment
SGX Launches First Leveraged and Inverse ETPs
By Editors | 01/12/2021
The listing enables investors to express market views without engaging in traditional leverage strategies that require margin monitoring or shorting, said SGX’s Michael Syn.
Structural Regulation
Refinitiv Launches USD IBOR Institutional Cash Fallbacks
By Editors | 01/12/2021
Fallbacks for institutional cash products are now production benchmarks. Prototype fallbacks for consumer cash products will be launched on 3 January 2022.
Structural Regulation
RBI to Update Rules on Ownership of Private Sector Banks
By Editors | 01/12/2021
Promoters will be able to increase their long-run stakes in private sector banks from 15 to 26 percent. The capital requirement for a universal bank licence will be doubled.
Structural Regulation
FSC Korea to Enhance Tech Financing Performance Evaluations
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 30/11/2021
The FSC will adjust the evaluation criteria it uses to assess banks’ tech financing performance to promote more lending to innovative SMEs.
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