Trading & Investment

Cryptocurrency

CME Group Plans to Launch Spot Bitcoin Trading – Report

By Nithya Subramanian | 17/05/2024

Traders and fund managers say they want to buy and sell bitcoin on a regulated marketplace.

Trading & Investment

CSRC Issues Final Rules for Programmatic Trading

By Editors | 17/05/2024

The rules require market participants involved in programmatic trading to register with stock exchanges and make detailed disclosures.

Structural Regulation

SFC Allows Broader Master-Feeder ETF Offerings in Hong Kong

By Editors | 17/05/2024

The SFC is extending the existing streamlined requirements for master ETFs to overseas-listed actively managed ETFs.

Structural Regulation

SEBI Mulls Tighter Listing Rules for Small Businesses

By Ajoy K Das | 16/05/2024

Regulators looking to set a minimum size threshold for public offers and to require additional disclosures from SMEs and merchant bankers.

Conduct, Culture & Accountability

Korea FSS Reveals Arbitration Results for Mis-sold ELS Products

By Editors | 16/05/2024

The final compensation ratio in representative cases from five banks varied from 30 to 65 percent.

Anti-Money Laundering

Australian Court Dismisses Class Action Against CBA

By Editors | 14/05/2024

The class action alleged that CBA failed to disclose its AML contraventions for several years before it was eventually fined A$700m in 2018.

Trading & Investment

ASIC Probes ANZ Over Treasury Bond Issuance

By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 14/05/2024

ASIC suspects ANZ breached the law while serving as a risk manager for a government bond issuance last year.

Trading & Investment

SGX Lists First ETF Tracking APAC Financial Sector

By Nithya Subramanian | 14/05/2024

The ETF is a collaboration between SGX, Lion Global Investors and OCBC Securities.

Market Data & Technology

HKEX Stops Showing Real-time Stock Connect Data

By Manesh Samtani | 14/05/2024

The change is expected to reduce abnormal market swings, mitigate herd behaviour, and promote fairer access to information.