Trading & Investment

Coverage of regulatory developments, market trends, and operational standards across asset classes, financial products, and trading venues.

Two More Chinese Firms List GDRs in Switzerland

By Editors | 19/04/2023

The listings come despite last month’s reports that Chinese regulators had stopped accepting applications from mainland firms seeking to issue GDRs in Switzerland.

Trading & Investment

CSRC Issues Draft Rules for Futures Market Practitioners

By Editors | 18/04/2023

The draft rules cancel qualification management requirements, strengthen supervision and self-discipline requirements, and expand the range of prohibited behaviours.

Trading & Investment

NSE IFSC-SGX Connect to Fully Launch on 3 July

By Editors | 18/04/2023

SGX will migrate all open positions in SGX Nifty to the relevant NSE IFSC NIFTY contracts during the weekend of 30 June.

Cryptocurrency

CME to Offer Additional BTC, ETH Options Expiries

By Editors | 18/04/2023

CME will offer expiries every business day to provide market participants with “greater precision and versatility” in managing short-term price risk.

Structural Regulation

Korea to Ease Rules on Overseas Business by Certain Securities Firms

By Editors | 17/04/2023

The revisions will enable overseas subsidiaries of “comprehensive financial investment service providers” to provide corporate credit in overseas markets more easily.

Trading & Investment

NSE India to Launch WTI Crude Oil, Natural Gas Futures

By Editors | 17/04/2023

NSE will launch WTI crude oil and natural gas futures contracts from 15 May. Both already trade on India’s MCX.

Trading & Investment

Malaysia Allows Dealer’s Representatives to Expand Services

By Editors | 17/04/2023

DRs can apply for additional licences to engage in investment advice, financial planning, restricted dealing in unit trust products, dealing in private retirement schemes.

Trading & Investment

CFFEX Set to Launch 30 Year Treasury Bond Futures

By Editors | 16/04/2023

CFFEX already offers futures trading in 2-year, 5-year, and 10-year treasury bond futures. The 30-year contract will start trading on Friday (21 April).

Trading & Investment

Japan FTC Cautions Mizuho Securities Over IPO Price-setting

By Editors | 16/04/2023

Mizuho Securities, as lead underwriter, set the issue prices of two companies lower than the companies were seeking. Both more than doubled in value on their IPO.

AI Risk & Governance

Tiger Brokers Tests ‘TigerGPT’ Chatbot as Investment Assistant

By Editors | 14/04/2023

The OpenAI-powered chatbot is said to be the “first deployment of an AI investment assistant in the brokerage industry”.

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