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Reporting on regulatory frameworks and rules governing market design, authorisation, and oversight of key financial market participants and infrastructures.
Conduct, Culture & Accountability
Australia Passes Law Forcing Financial Firms to Cooperate with AFCA
By Editors | 10/04/2019
A new law has made it mandatory for all financial firms to fully cooperate with AFCA to resolve consumer and small business disputes.
Structural Regulation
FCA, ASIC Ensure Post-Brexit Continuity, Cooperation
By Editors | 08/04/2019
The FCA and ASIC have signed MoUs on trade repositories and alternative investment funds, and adopted existing equivalence decisions on their supervisory and regulatory regimes.
Data Privacy
ACCC Publishes Draft Rules for Open Banking Data Sharing
By Editors | 08/04/2019
The draft rules provide detail and guidance as to how the Consumer Data Right will work in the banking sector starting in July this year.
Structural Regulation
Bangladesh Exchanges Lobby for Lower Taxes to Spur Capital Market
By Editors | 08/04/2019
The Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges have asked for tax cuts on dividends, bonds, stock transactions, and their own income, in a bid to catalyse Bangladesh’s capital markets.
Payments & Settlements
ASEAN Pushes for Cross-Border Settlement in Local Currencies
By Editors | 08/04/2019
ASEAN central bankers are setting up direct settlement systems that use local currencies, in a bid to reduce transaction costs and exposures to global volatility.
Trading & Investment
RBI to Allow Non-Residents to Trade Interest Rate Derivatives
By Editors | 07/04/2019
Under draft rules, non-resident retail investors can hedge through interest rate derivatives; non-retail investors can participate for other specified purposes.
Trading & Investment
Over 40 IPO Applicants Accepted for Shanghai’s New Board
By Editors | 07/04/2019
Of the 50 listing applicants so far, 41 have been accepted and will have to through a second stage of audit and inquiry. The other 9 have been sent inquiry letters.
Structural Regulation
Merger Benefits Diminished Under Existing JPX-TOCOM Plan
By Editors | 07/04/2019
The current plan to keep crude oil and petroleum products on TOCOM will diminish the benefits of the planned merger with JPX.
Structural Regulation
S. Korean May Allow Fintechs to Enter Brokerage Business
By Editors | 05/04/2019
The biggest barrier to entry for fintech firms will be the capital regulations imposed on existing brokerage firms.
Trading & Investment
Fullerton Wins Approval to Offer Investment Advisory in China
By Editors | 04/04/2019
Fullerton has become the first foreign fund manager to receive approval for its WFOE to conduct onshore investment advisory business in China.
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