Trading & Investment

    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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