Trading & Investment

Structural Regulation

MAS, ESMA Sign MOU on Singapore’s Financial Benchmarks

By Editors | 18/04/2020

The MOU and last year’s equivalence decision from the European Commission ensure that FIs in the EU can continue using SIBOR and the SOR as reference rates in their contracts.

Liquidity Risk

Bank Indonesia Cuts RRR, Prepares to Buy Govt Bonds

By Editors | 18/04/2020

The measures include a 200bp RRR cut for banks and a 50bp cut for Islamic banks. The central bank may also start buying government bonds in the primary market in two weeks.

Structural Regulation

Japan Extends Deadlines for Filing Securities Reports, Holding AGMs

By Editors | 18/04/2020

Japan’s FSA has extended the submission deadline for corporate securities reports to the end of September, while companies are being encouraged postpone annual shareholder meetings or hold them virtually.

Trading & Investment

Malaysia SC Announces Capital Market Measures to Support Businesses

By Editors | 17/04/2020

The measures include relief for publicly listed companies from PN17 (financial distress) classification, even if they fall below certain regulatory thresholds.

Trading & Investment

ASIC Updates Guidance on Active ETF Internal Market Making

By Editors | 16/04/2020

Active ETFs are asked to rely on publicly available information for market making quotes, and to establish internal information barriers.

Trading & Investment

ISDA to Add Pre-cessation Trigger to LIBOR Fallback Provisions

By Editors | 16/04/2020

A significant majority of respondents favour including both pre-cessation and permanent cessation fallbacks as standard language in the amended 2006 ISDA Definitions for LIBOR.

Trading & Investment

Malaysia, Shenzhen Bourses Enter MoU on Cross-border Collaboration

By Editors | 15/04/2020

The MoU will facilitate the display and joint promotion of Bursa Malaysia and SZSE benchmark indices in each other’s markets.

Structural Regulation

Thailand: SET Gets Powers to Respond to Market Disruptions

By Editors | 15/04/2020

In a market disruption event, the SET board now has the power to prohibit short selling and algorithmic trading on the spot, among other measures.

Structural Regulation

China’s Top Two Brokerage Firms Explore Merger – Report

By Editors | 14/04/2020

A merger between Citic Securities and CSC Financial would create a $67bn investment bank, surpassing the market cao of most other foreign competitors.