Trading & Investment

Trading & Investment

Bond Connect Credited for Rapid Growth of China ABS Market

By Manesh Samtani | 25/10/2018

China’s onshore ABS market has been growing rapidly since the launch of Bond Connect last year, according to panellists at IMN’s Asian Structured Credit Summit.

Trading & Investment

Market Needs to Do More to Prepare for End of LIBOR – ASIC, RBA

By Garima Chitkara | 24/10/2018

Participants need to be clear that the LIBOR will end after 2021 and prepare to deal with the challenges this presents, Australian regulators said at the ISDA Annual Australia Conference.

AI Risk & Governance

Fintech Must be Governed Under Existing Legal Frameworks – HKEX

By Manesh Samtani | 24/10/2018

Financial services offered in either a test or real environment should be governed by the same legal framework, says HKEX in a new report.

Trading & Investment

China Formalises Measures to Support Markets, Private Enterprises

By Manesh Samtani | 23/10/2018

The measures include more funding to support bank lending to small firms and a broker-led fund to support listed companies facing forced liquidation of pledged shares, among others.

Trading & Investment

HKEX Launches Commodity Exchange in Shenzhen

By Editors | 22/10/2018

The Qianhai Mercantile Exchange, controlled by HKEX, unexpectedly began spot trading in alumina on Friday, according to a Reuters report.

Trading & Investment

HSBC Mulls Shanghai Listing through Stock Connect

By Garima Chitkara | 19/10/2018

HSBC could become the first foreign firm to list on the Shanghai Stock Exchange through a new Stock Connect link with London, slated to go live at the end of the year.

Trading & Investment

Chi-X Australia, Deutsche Announce New TraCR Issuances

By Editors | 19/10/2018

Microsoft, JP Morgan, Disney and Facebook will join Apple in becoming Transferable Custody Receipts listed on Chi-X Australia, with more issuances to follow.

Trading & Investment

Japanese Brokers to Seek TSE Compensation for Trading Glitch

By Manesh Samtani | 19/10/2018

Up to 40 brokerages face billions of yen in potential losses on over 100,000 retroactive trades they are duty-bound to make after trading was halted last week due to a connection failure.

Conduct, Culture & Accountability

FSS Unveils Measures to Boost Internal Controls, Compliance Staff at FIs

By Editors | 18/10/2018

The measures, though not yet finalised, follow recent concerns about stock trading systems at financial institutions in South Korea.