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Reporting on regulatory frameworks and rules governing market design, authorisation, and oversight of key financial market participants and infrastructures.
Payments & Settlements
Australia Finalises ISO 20022 Migration Approach for Payment System
By Editors | 27/02/2020
From November 2021, all intermediaries for incoming cross-border payments must be able to receive ISO 20022 enhanced message content, and to pass on those messages in full.
Structural Regulation
ASIC Proposes to Reduce Red Tape for Companies Planning IPOs
By Editors | 26/02/2020
ASIC proposes to grant conditional relief for voluntary escrow arrangements and pre-prospectus communications to existing shareholders and employees.
Trading & Investment
ISDA Launches New Consultation on Pre-cessation Fallbacks
By Editors | 25/02/2020
ISDA seeks input on whether to add a pre-cessation trigger to the permanent cessation fallbacks it is implementing for LIBOR in its standard documentation.
Structural Regulation
Bursa Malaysia Subsidiary to Assume All Regulatory Functions
By Editors | 25/02/2020
The establishment of the new wholly-owned subsidiary, ‘Bursa RegSub’, follows a similar approach to SGX, which formed SGX RegCo to undertake all regulatory functions in 2017.
Trading & Investment
ISDA Concludes Consultation on EUR LIBOR, EURIBOR Fallbacks
By Editors | 25/02/2020
Respondents selected the ‘compounded setting in arrears rate approach with a backward-shift adjustment’ and ‘five-year historical median approach to the spread adjustment’.
Conduct, Culture & Accountability
Hong Kong Insurance Authority Allows Non-face-to-face Product Sales
By Editors | 25/02/2020
The temporary measures are aimed at reducing the risk of Covid-19 infection from face-to-face meetings between insurers, intermediaries and clients.
Cloud & Infrastructure
Is RegTech Coming of Age in Australia?
By Stephen Scott | 25/02/2020
Regtech is not fintech, says Stephen Scott at Starling. While fintech firms look to regulators for permission, what most regtech firms require from regulators is their collaboration.
Structural Regulation
SFC Highlights Key Regulatory Initiatives in Quarterly Report
By Editors | 25/02/2020
Among the initiatives were the launch of the new OFC regime for private fund managers, a regulatory framework for virtual assets, and enhancements to the investor compensation regime.
Trading & Investment
China Reopens Treasury Bond Futures Market to State-run Banks
By Editors | 24/02/2020
The domestic treasury bond futures market was closed in 1995 following a panic sell-off and the collapse of China’s largest brokerage at the time.
Structural Regulation
Japan: New Foreign Investment Rule to Impact Up to 500 Listed Firms
By Editors | 24/02/2020
Proposed ministry orders currently being finalised will reportedly exempt a wide range of foreign financial institutions and hedge funds from the reporting requirement.
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