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Reporting on regulatory frameworks and rules governing market design, authorisation, and oversight of key financial market participants and infrastructures.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Korea Enhances Regulatory Sandbox Through Legislative Revisions
By Manesh Samtani | 13/04/2021
The revisions will allow sandbox participants to file requests to the FSC and other relevant authorities for changes to regulations.
Structural Regulation
Regulators Order Ant Group to Establish Financial Holding Company
By Manesh Samtani | 12/04/2021
Ant Group will have to accept greater regulatory supervision, improve its corporate governance, and separate some of its businesses.
Reporting & Disclosures
New TSE Chief Eyes ESG Focus In Reorganisation Plan
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 12/04/2021
Chief executive Hiromi Yamaji says the TSE will urge companies to step up efforts on ESG issues based on their market classification.
Structural Regulation
JD Digits to Set Up Financial Holding Company: Report
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 12/04/2021
The financial holding company will be separate from JD Digits’ other technology businesses, and is aimed at achieving compliance with new rules for China’s fintech sector.
Structural Regulation
China to Open Foreign Access to Hainan Financial Services Sector
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 12/04/2021
Foreign FIs will be encouraged to establish joint venture banks with local firms. Foreign investors will be allowed to invest in financial products issued by Hainan FIs.
Structural Regulation
Thailand SEC Amends Rules for Capital Market Auditors
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 12/04/2021
The experience requirement for auditors in the capital markets has been reduced from a minimum of 10 years to seven years.
Structural Regulation
LIBOR Phase-out, RFR Adoption: A Path Forward for Sri Lanka
By Lalinda Sugathadasa | 11/04/2021
The CBSL should play a more active role in facilitating the transition in Sri Lanka, says Lalinda Sugathadasa, Head of Research at ICRA Lanka.
Trading & Investment
PBOC Researchers Call for Establishment of Yuan Futures Market
By Editors | 11/04/2021
Offshore RMB rates are becoming increasingly influential, suggesting that they will play an even bigger role in pricing in future.
Structural Regulation
China Issues Largest Ever Antitrust Fine Against Alibaba
By Editors | 11/04/2021
The 18bn yuan penalty is the highest antitrust fine ever to be imposed in China, equivalent to 4% of Alibaba’s 2019 revenues.
Structural Regulation
BOT to Prohibit THBFIX-based Transactions from 1 July
By Editors | 11/04/2021
New transactions based on THBFIX including loans, bonds, and structures notes must stop from 1 July 2021.
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