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    Market Abuse

    JPMorgan to Pay Penalty to 3rd Regulator in Surveillance Case

    By Nithya Subramanian | 03/05/2024

    Following fines from the OCC and Fed announced in March, JPM said it has to pay $100m to a third regulator, identified in reports as the CFTC.

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    Trading & Investment

    Korea FSC Unveils Draft Guidelines for “Value-up” Programme

    By Manesh Samtani | 03/05/2024

    The programme is designed to encourage listed companies to improve corporate governance, long term value creation, and shareholder returns.

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    Tokenisation

    Capital Markets Regulators Committed to Innovating With Tokenisation

    By Nithya Subramanian | 02/05/2024

    The UK FCA’s Rupert Harrison and Thai SEC’s Kris Tontipiromya discussed their tokenisation work at the recent Digital Assets Asia 2024.

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    Trading & Investment

    SEBI to Allow Lower Face Value of Privately-placed Debt Securities

    By Manesh Samtani | 30/04/2024

    The lower face value will be optional for issuers of privately-placed non-convertible debentures and non-convertible redeemable preference shares.

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    Cryptocurrency

    ASX Expected to Approve More Bitcoin ETFs This Year – Report

    By Nithya Subramanian | 30/04/2024

    VanEck Associates, BetaShares, and local player DigitalX have lodged applications with ASX to list spot Bitcoin ETFs.

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    Cryptocurrency

    Hong Kong Launches Asia’s First Spot Crypto ETFs

    By Manesh Samtani | 30/04/2024

    ChinaAMC, Harvest Global Investments, and Bosera Asset Management each listed a spot Bitcoin ETF and a spot Ether ETF.

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    Structural Regulation

    SEBI Directs BSE to Remediate Erroneous Fee Calculations

    By Ajoy K Das | 30/04/2024

    BSE has to pay almost $20mn for to make up for years of incorrect calculations of its annual options trading turnover.

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    Trading & Investment

    Malaysia SC, IsDB to Cooperate on Islamic Capital Market

    By Nithya Subramanian | 30/04/2024

    The collaboration will facilitate innovation in Islamic fintech, promote Islamic social finance, and encourage investment inflows.

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    Trading & Investment

    India Amends FX Rules to Facilitate Direct Listings in GIFT City

    By Ajoy K Das | 29/04/2024

    The regulations make clear that firms raising funds through direct GIFT City listings can hold the proceeds in foreign currency accounts outside India.

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    Reporting & Disclosures

    NZX Amends Listing Rules to Clarify Climate Disclosure Obligations

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 29/04/2024

    The amendments also introduce requirements for issuers to appoint authorised representatives and provide NZX with their contact details.

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