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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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