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Coverage of regulatory developments, market trends, and operational standards across asset classes, financial products, and trading venues.
Structural Regulation
FCA Consults on Use of New Powers to Facilitate LIBOR Transition
By Editors | 22/05/2021
The consultation will help the FCA decide on what legacy use to permit for non-representative benchmarks and how it will prohibit new use of critical benchmarks that are ceasing.
Trading & Investment
Shanghai, Shenzhen Bourses Consult on New Bond Issuance Rules
By Editors | 22/05/2021
Rules requiring issuers to have credit ratings are removed, investor rights protection mechanisms are enhanced, and obligations on intermediaries are strengthened.
Trading & Investment
BNM Consults on Multi-rate Approach to LIBOR Transition
By Manesh Samtani | 21/05/2021
A new discussion paper proposes that the Malaysian ARR be based on overnight transactions in the interbank market, and that the ARR runs in parallel to KLIBOR.
Trading & Investment
Bursa Malaysia Set to Pilot Market Making in Stocks
By Editors | 20/05/2021
Firms can register as stock market makers and carry out market making activities in eligible stocks, helping to improve liquidity and price efficiency of these stocks.
Structural Regulation
SET Amends Listing Rules to Introduce Market Cap Test
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 20/05/2021
The listing rule changes will enable companies in target sectors to more easily access funding from Thailand’s capital market.
Trading & Investment
Nomura to Set Up Electronic FX Trading Engine in Singapore
By Ranamita Chakraborty | 20/05/2021
The electronic FX pricing and trading engine will improve execution infrastructure, access to liquidity and price discovery for clients.
Sustainable Finance
DBS, SGX, StanChart, Temasek to Launch Carbon Exchange
By Editors | 20/05/2021
‘Climate Impact X’ seeks to address a need for more high-quality carbon credits and promote active cross-border trading of such credits to drive global price transparency.
Trading & Investment
Japanese FIs Still Have $24tr in LIBOR Exposures – Report
By Editors | 20/05/2021
The December 2020 figure is down only slightly from the $27.5tr of contracts referencing LIBOR 18 months earlier at the end of June 2019.
PEPs & Sanctions
US Postpones Investment Ban on ‘Chinese Military Companies’
By Editors | 20/05/2021
The two-week delay is needed to craft a stronger policy to prohibit trades in companies connected to the Chinese military, including to evaluate the companies on the list.
Market Abuse
ASIC Fines Macquarie Securities A$126,000 Over Algorithm Failure
By Editors | 19/05/2021
Macquarie Securities was meant to conduct a share buyback for a client via ordinary trading, but the trade went through ASX Centre Point, a dark market.
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