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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
SEBI Mandates Mapping of Brokers’ Client Codes with Demat Accounts
By Editors | 19/11/2019
The measure has been put in place to detect the diversion of client securities by brokers at an early stage so allow for appropriate preventive measures.
Structural Regulation
Australia Consults on Financial Market Infrastructure Regulatory Reforms
By Editors | 19/11/2019
The proposed reforms will enhance the licensing and supervisory regime for financial market infrastructures and introduce a resolution regime for clearing and settlement facilities.
Structural Regulation
CBIRC Grants Allianz Approval to Commence Operation in China
By Editors | 19/11/2019
The approval makes Shanghai-based Allianz (China) Insurance Holding Company Limited the first fully foreign-owned insurance holding company to operate in China.
Trading & Investment
CSRC to Allow Full Conversion of Non-tradeable Shares to H-Shares
By Editors | 19/11/2019
The move is seen as a way for state investors to exit some industries, and a way for some mainland companies to raise new funds and improve liquidity in their H-shares.
Clearing & Post-Trade
ASX Consults on Tranche 1 Rule Changes for CHESS Replacement
By Editors | 18/11/2019
ASX is consulting on the first of three tranches of operating rule amendments required to facilitate the implementation of the CHESS replacement system in April 2021.
Trading & Investment
ISDA Publishes Consultation Results on Benchmark Fallback Parameters
By Editors | 18/11/2019
The majority preferred a historical median spread adjustment with a five year lookback period, and a two-banking-day backward shift adjustment for the compounded setting in arrears rate.
Conduct, Culture & Accountability
Fostering Customer Trust in the Financial Industry: MAS
By Editors | 18/11/2019
Regulators and FIs alike have an important part to play to build trust in the financial industry, MAS deputy managing director Ong Chong Tee said in a speech on Saturday.
Trading & Investment
Malaysia Central Bank Revises Repo Rules
By Editors | 14/11/2019
New rules increase repo transaction tenor to five years and expand the list of eligible securities allowed in repo transactions.
Structural Regulation
Regulation Asia Awards: Herbert Smith Freehills Wins Law Firm of the Year
By Editors | 14/11/2019
Herbert Smith Freehills has been awarded Law Firm of the Year in the 2nd Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence 2019.
Structural Regulation
Regulation Asia Awards: SGX Wins Exchange of the Year
By Editors | 14/11/2019
SGX has been awarded Exchange of the Year in the 2nd Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence 2019.
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