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Reporting on regulatory frameworks and rules governing market design, authorisation, and oversight of key financial market participants and infrastructures.
Trading & Investment
Singapore’s iFAST to Launch China Private Fund Manager Business
By Editors | 28/09/2020
iFAST Corporation expects to start selling private funds to qualified onshore individual and institutional investors in China in early 2021.
Trading & Investment
Korea Considers Capping Margin Lending, Underwriting Fees
By Editors | 28/09/2020
Interest rates on margin accounts vary between 4.5% and 9%; underwriting fees vary between 1% and 6% of the total value of the shares.
AI Risk & Governance
RegTech Asia 2020: Trends, Review and Outlook
By Editors | 28/09/2020
How has the regtech industry has weathered the Covid-19 storm and provided support to global initiatives designed to keep our economies moving?
Structural Regulation
Taiwan FSC Considers Changes to Capital Market Rules
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 28/09/2020
The FSC is examining whether to encourage the development of Internet-only securities companies to cater to investors who are increasingly placing orders online.
Trading & Investment
CSRC Approves ZCE Polyester Staple Fiber Futures Contract
By Editors | 28/09/2020
The new contract will provide relevant enterprises open, continuous and transparent price signals and effective risk management tools, the CSRC said.
Trading & Investment
UK Manager Baillie Gifford Sets Up China Fund Unit
By Editors | 28/09/2020
Baillie Gifford has become the latest foreign asset manager to set up a wholly-owned securities investment fund unit in China.
Structural Regulation
Taiwan FSC Issues New Rules on Domestic OBU Accounts
By Editors | 28/09/2020
About 90,000 of Taiwan’s 130,000 OBU accounts are owned by overseas firms that are actually Taiwanese companies.
Trading & Investment
Chinese Regulators to Combine QFII, RQFII from 1 November
By Editors | 27/09/2020
The move to combine the QFII and RQFII into a single ‘qualified foreign investor’ regime is aimed at further easing foreign access to China’s capital markets.
Credit Risk
Australia Prepares to Abolish Responsible Lending Obligations
By Manesh Samtani | 27/09/2020
Lenders will no longer have to assess borrowers’ earnings and expenses to determine whether they can afford to repay their debt without hardship.
Structural Regulation
EU Sets Out Action Plan to Achieve Capital Markets Union
By Editors | 27/09/2020
The Action Plan seeks to make financing more accessible to European companies and integrate national capital markets into a genuine single market.
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