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Reporting on regulatory frameworks and rules governing market design, authorisation, and oversight of key financial market participants and infrastructures.
Structural Regulation
LEIs: Asia Following the Rest of the World
By Tony Freeman | 18/01/2018
Firms in the region either embrace, endure or avoid MiFID II’s LEI requirement, but must accept that it’s not just regulations from the US which now have a profound extraterritorial impact.
Structural Regulation
Philippines Will Now Report Cross Border Banking Stats to BIS
By Editors | 17/01/2018
BSP has begun reporting international banking statistics from January 2018, having met BIS standards for completeness and quality.
Structural Regulation
Korea Announces Measures to Reform Kosdaq Market to Support Startups
By Garima Chitkara | 15/01/2018
Measures include overhauling Kosdaq listing requirements, strengthening competitiveness, and improving market soundness and investor trust.
Structural Regulation
Australia Licences Seven Crowd-Funding Intermediaries
By Editors | 14/01/2018
Eligible public companies can raise up to AUD 5 million in funds through equity crowdfunding and will face fewer regulatory requirements for fundraising.
Structural Regulation
Beware Regulatory Fragmentation in 2018 – Deloitte
By Samuel Riding | 11/01/2018
Trend towards more isolated policymaking will challenge the implementation of financial regulations on a worldwide basis.
Trading & Investment
ESMA Publishes List of Derivatives Subject to MiFID II Trading Rules
By Samuel Riding | 11/01/2018
Listed securities must be traded on regulated markets or organised trading facilities; no APAC venues yet to be granted equivalency.
Trading & Investment
Korea’s Reduction in Foreign Shareholder Capital Gains Tax Threshold Arouses Concern
By Garima Chitkara | 10/01/2018
Government to cut threshold from 25% to 5%, ASIFMA says reduction will challenge securities firms, produce no tax revenue.
Trading & Investment
HKEx Considering New Rules to Boost Trading Volumes
By Garima Chitkara | 10/01/2018
HK exchange looking to establish new trading rules, including rebates, simplified collateral regulations and removal of 10bp stamp duty charge.
Trading & Investment
MiFID II – Just the Start of a Perfect Storm for Research
By Peter Guy | 08/01/2018
The unbundling of research costs will not only create more transparency but usher in a collapse and change in banking research.
Payments & Settlements
Banks Must Ensure Foreigners’ RMB Investment Returns Can Be ‘Freely Remitted’ – PBOC
By Samuel Riding | 08/01/2018
PBOC confirms overseas investors can use RMB funds to participate in China’s emissions trading market; send RMB profits, dividends back home.
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