Structural Regulation

    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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