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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
RBI Formally Permits India Residents to Invest in GIFT City
By Ranamita Chakraborty | 17/02/2021
Separately, a new framework has been issued allowing professional services firms including consultancies, fund administrators and trustees to set up in GIFT City.
Structural Regulation
SC, Bursa Malaysia Grant Additional Relief for Listed Issuers
By Editors | 17/02/2021
Listed issuers allowed an automatic 1-month extension to prepare financial statements. Those impacted by Covid-19 are granted more time to regularise operations.
Fraud, Scams & Cybercrime
SEC Thailand Consults on New Rules for Auditors, Audit Firms
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 17/02/2021
The SEC proposes new rules on the reporting of suspected fraud identified in audits, and to lower entry requirements for auditors in the capital markets.
Payments & Settlements
S. Korean Law to Help Reverse Mobile Payments Made in Error
By Editors | 16/02/2021
New legislation set to take effect in July will task the KDIC with helping users of mobile payment apps to retrieve funds that are transferred in error.
Structural Regulation
GLEIF to Implement New Policies, File Formats in Global LEI System
By Editors | 15/02/2021
Users must plan to implement the updated file formats to ensure uninterrupted access to LEI data beyond 31 March 2022, GLEIF said.
Structural Regulation
CPA Australia Calls for Reforms to ASIC Funding Model
By Editors | 15/02/2021
The accounting body has asked the government to consider the adoption of a partial cost-recovery model for ASIC to ease the burden on the financial industry.
Structural Regulation
ASIC Outlines Approach to Regulating Superannuation Trustees
By Editors | 14/02/2021
ASIC’s Jane Eccleston says trustees of non-public offer funds need to apply for an AFS licence or vary their existing licences by 30 April 2021.
Structural Regulation
KRX to Ease Requirements for Listing on KOSPI
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 12/02/2021
The new rules are expected to facilitate the realisation of the “Korean version of Tesla”, the US automaker which listed on the Nasdaq in 2010 based on market cap.
Conduct, Culture & Accountability
SEBI Penalises NSE, Former Officials in Colocation Case
By Editors | 12/02/2021
SEBI says NSE failed to ensure fair and equitable access by trading members subscribing to its tick-by-tick data feed system.
Anti-Bribery & Corruption
CSRC Targets ‘Shadow Shareholders’ in New Guidelines
By Editors | 12/02/2021
A 36 month lock up period is being introduced for investors who purchase shares in companies within 12 months before their IPO applications.
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