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Coverage of regulatory developments, market trends, and operational standards across asset classes, financial products, and trading venues.
Structural Regulation
1M, 6M Synthetic GBP LIBOR to Cease at End March, FCA Says
By Editors | 03/10/2022
The FCA is still considering when to cease the 3-month synthetic GBP LIBOR setting, and whether to compel IBA to produce synthetic USD LIBOR settings after mid 2023.
Sustainable Finance
FMSB Publishes Spotlight Review on Voluntary Carbon Markets
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 02/10/2022
The spotlight review details the key challenges of VCMs and offers recommendations to help in their transition into a mature asset class.
Trading & Investment
SEBI Modifies Rules on Daily Price Limits for Commodity Futures
By Editors | 02/10/2022
Exchanges may relax the daily price limit in “exceptional circumstance” to resolve price differences between local and overseas markets.
Trading & Investment
SEBI Grants BSE Final Approval to Launch Gold Trading
By Editors | 02/10/2022
BSE has already conducted mock trading sessions for its members in a test environment to enable trading in electronic gold receipts.
Structural Regulation
TWSE to Lower Listing Requirements for Innovation Board
By Editors | 02/10/2022
The Taiwan Innovation Board was launched in July last year to cater to innovative startups, but has seen only one listing so far.
Trading & Investment
ESMA Calls for Greater Use of €STR in Derivatives
By Editors | 02/10/2022
Further develop of €STR products will provide the inputs needed to enable the calculation and provision of €STR term rates, ESMA says.
Trading & Investment
Singapore Exchange Launches Battery Metal Futures
By Editors | 02/10/2022
Contracts were launched in battery-grade lithium carbonate; lithium hydroxide; cobalt metal; and cobalt hydroxide.
Sustainable Finance
ISDA Analyses Regulatory Treatment of SLDs in Hong Kong
By Editors | 02/10/2022
The paper considers how SLDs would be classified and regulated, and the compliance issues for market participants to consider when executing SLDs.
Emerging Prudential Risks
Korea Takes Emergency Measures to Stabilise Markets, Currency
By Editors | 29/09/2022
MOEF and BOK are buying government bonds to lower yields, and the FSC is preparing to reactivate a stock market stabilisation fund created during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Cryptocurrency
FTX Wins Auction to Buy Assets of Bankrupt Voyager Digital
By Editors | 29/09/2022
FTX won a “highly competitive auction process” that lasted two weeks with the “highest and best bid for its assets”, valued at just over USD 1.4 billion.
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