Sri Lanka is trying to restructure its loans from Chinese banks, offering golden visas to foreigners, and relaxing rules on securities margin financing.
April 29, 2022The planned changes will make the DDOs law more appropriate for the mortgage broking sector, and clarify that margin lending to corporates is exempt, among other changes.
August 16, 2021The SFC is on the lookout for funds with outsized and concentrated bets to prevent an Archegos-type event in Hong Kong.
June 8, 2021Interest rates on margin accounts vary between 4.5% and 9%; underwriting fees vary between 1% and 6% of the total value of the shares.
September 29, 2020DTCC, UnaVista, KDPW and REGIS-TR will have their TR registrations for derivatives contracts under EMIR extended to include securities financing transactions under SFTR.
May 10, 2020The brokerage did not have effective controls to identify third party deposits, and "extensive deficiencies" were found in its handling of margin lending and margin calls.
April 20, 2020Senior management, including the board, responsible officers and MICs will be held accountable for the overall risk management control of their firms.
January 21, 2020From 4 October, margin loans will be capped at five times capital, despite appeals from brokerage firms to postpone the new rules by one year.
September 30, 2019Deputy chief Julia Leung says the SFC is concerned that brokers are using complex trading arrangements to circumvent regulatory oversight, among other supervisory priorities.
June 19, 2019The guidelines will take effect in October, requiring brokers to limit margin lending to five times their capital, among other controls to reduce excessive leverage.
April 5, 2019