Structural Regulation

    Reporting on regulatory frameworks and rules governing market design, authorisation, and oversight of key financial market participants and infrastructures.

    Market Data & Technology

    Global UPI Adoption a Key Focus for DSB in Year Ahead

    By Editors | 28/10/2020

    The DSB has expanded its Technology Advisory Committee to reflect the geographic diversity that will underpin the global UPI implementation effort.

    Trading & Investment

    Dhaka Bourse Trials Pre-Opening, Post-Closing Sessions

    By Duruthu E Chandrasekera | 28/10/2020

    BSEC Executive Director Mohammad Saifur Rahman told Regulation Asia the pre-opening and post-closing sessions will be effective as early as next month.

    Trading & Investment

    China Explores Rule Relaxations to Facilitate Cross-Border Investment

    By Manesh Samtani | 28/10/2020

    China’s regulators are working to further relax restrictions on cross-border investment and create new channels for domestic and foreign investors alike.

    Trading & Investment

    CSRC Updates Rules to Protect Convertible Bond Investors

    By Editors | 28/10/2020

    Trading venues will have to develop an investor suitability management system, and securities firms will have to conduct client suitability assessments.

    Structural Regulation

    MAS Seeks Removal of REIT Manager for SFA Breaches

    By Editors | 27/10/2020

    Eagle Hospitality REIT Management breached the minimum base capital and financial resources requirements under the SFA three times in the span of about a year.

    Emerging Prudential Risks

    PBOC Issues Draft Law Aimed at Modernising Central Bank System

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 27/10/2020

    The draft law expands the PBOC’s role in preventing financial risks, assigns it responsibilities to society, and provides a legal basis for its CBDC, among other changes.

    Payments & Settlements

    Australian Treasury Orders Review of Domestic Payments Regulation

    By Shruti Khairnar | 27/10/2020

    The review comes after two decades of the regulatory architecture of the domestic payments system being largely unchanged.

    Conduct, Culture & Accountability

    Australia: New Report Proposes Changes to Financial Advice Rules

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 27/10/2020

    The FASEA regime has created a barrier to many people who seek to provide advice services and to consumers who seek to access them, says a new Rice Warner report.

    Structural Regulation

    Singapore Publishes Timelines, Guidance to Support Transition to SORA

    By Manesh Samtani | 27/10/2020

    Under the timelines, all lenders and borrowers will stop issuing SOR-linked loans and securities that mature after 2021 by end-April 2021.

    Trading & Investment

    China to Issue Additional Quotas for Outbound Investment via QDII

    By Editors | 26/10/2020

    The move, estimated to release quotas by $2-3bn per quarter, is being called one of the biggest relaxations in capital controls in recent years.

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