Trading & Investment

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

    Market Abuse

    KRX Probes Market Makers’ Compliance With Short Selling Rules

    By Editors | 02/11/2020

    The inspection will cover all 22 market makers, focusing on whether they conducted naked short selling and whether they violated the uptick rule.

    Trading & Investment

    China Further Opens Domestic Markets to Foreign Investors

    By Manesh Samtani | 01/11/2020

    Qualified foreign investors can lend out and borrow stock holdings to enable their use in short-selling, and trade equity index futures on the CFFEX.

    Structural Regulation

    HK to Allow Secondary Listings from Some Corporate WVR Companies

    By Manesh Samtani | 01/11/2020

    Subject to certain requirements, Greater China issuers primary listed on the Nasdaq, NYSE or the LSE’s premium listing segment will be allowed to secondary list in Hong Kong.

    Trading & Investment

    TSE Invites Firms to Register for New RFQ Platform for ETFs

    By Editors | 01/11/2020

    The new platform, CONNEQTOR, will be ready for production use next month, allowing institutional investors to send RFQs to market makers.

    Trading & Investment

    PBOC to Scrap Market Maker Approval Process in Interbank Market

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 01/11/2020

    The PBOC proposes to allow banks and securities firms to only sign an agreement with trading platforms to conduct market making business.

    Structural Regulation

    US, Thailand Partner to Strengthen Infrastructure Finance

    By Editors | 30/10/2020

    The cooperative initiative will focus on the development of financial instruments, project finance, the local debt market, and capital markets.

    Trading & Investment

    Dhaka Bourse Trials Pre-Opening, Post-Closing Sessions

    By Duruthu E Chandrasekera | 28/10/2020

    BSEC Executive Director Mohammad Saifur Rahman told Regulation Asia the pre-opening and post-closing sessions will be effective as early as next month.

    Trading & Investment

    China Explores Rule Relaxations to Facilitate Cross-Border Investment

    By Manesh Samtani | 28/10/2020

    China’s regulators are working to further relax restrictions on cross-border investment and create new channels for domestic and foreign investors alike.

    Trading & Investment

    CSRC Updates Rules to Protect Convertible Bond Investors

    By Editors | 28/10/2020

    Trading venues will have to develop an investor suitability management system, and securities firms will have to conduct client suitability assessments.

    Trading & Investment

    FSS Bans Unlicensed Investment Advice on Online Chatrooms

    By Editors | 27/10/2020

    Unlicensed advisers are barred from giving one-on-one investment advice to clients, but chat rooms have been serving as platforms for illegal consulting.

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