International Organization of Securities Commissions

Market Infrastructure

IOSCO Offers Guidance to Promote Deference Between Regulators

By Editors | 28/06/2020

IOSCO offers 11 good practices to help regulators establish and operate efficient deference processes, and mitigate the risk of market fragmentation.

Market Infrastructure

CPMI-IOSCO Describes Work Needed to Improve CCP Auctions

By Editors | 27/06/2020

CPMI and IOSCO have asked CCPs to address a number of issues related to default management auctions within 24 months.

Fintech / Regtech

IOSCO Drafts Guidance on Supervising AI/ML in Financial Markets

By Editors | 25/06/2020

IOSCO proposes six measures to assist members in creating appropriate regulatory frameworks to supervise market intermediaries and asset managers that use AI and ML.

Market Infrastructure

RBI Updates Oversight Framework for FMIs, Retail Payment Systems

By Editors | 14/06/2020

The framework details the oversight objectives, supervisory processes and assessment methodology the RBI will apply to financial market infrastructures and retail payment systems.

Fintech / Regtech

IOSCO Consults on Updated Set of Outsourcing Principles

By Editors | 28/05/2020

The principles include selection due diligence, information security, confidentiality issues, outsourcing risk concentration, and access to data, among others.

Securities / Derivatives

SFC Defers IM Rules, Maintains 1 September for VM Requirements

By Editors | 07/05/2020

While variation margin requirements will still take effect from 1 September 2020 as planned, initial margin requirements for non-centrally cleared OTC derivatives will be deferred by one year.

Capital / Liquidity

S. Korea Defers Initial Margin Requirements by One Year

By Editors | 06/05/2020

The move is in line with the BCBS-IOSCO decision announced in April, and will help to ease the compliance burden on financial institutions amid the Covid-19 crisis.

Market Infrastructure

Industry Bodies Request Margin Exemption Extensions under EMIR

By Manesh Samtani | 06/05/2020

ISDA and other industry associations are asking for equivalence decisions for all jurisdictions that have implemented margin rules in line with the BCBS-IOSCO framework.

Enforcement

CSRC Vows Cross-border Cooperation in Luckin Fraud Case

By Editors | 28/04/2020

The CSRC has been communicating with US regulators, looking to deepen cross-border cooperation to combat misconduct and fraud and to protect investors.