Covid-19 has raised the risk of significant consumer harm and serious breaches of financial services laws, says ASIC chair James Shipton.
April 14, 2020The consultative report proposes 10 high-level recommendations for jurisdictional authorities to advance consistent and effective regulation and supervision of global stablecoin arrangements.
April 14, 2020IOSCO resources will be redeployed to focus on matters directly impacted by Covid-19, including to examine market-based finance, investment funds and central clearing.
April 9, 2020APRA and ASIC have suspended the majority of their planned policy initiatives and do not plan to recommence consultation on any non-essential matters before 30 September 2020.
March 23, 2020ASIC will be focused on conduct issues involving superannuation trustees, while APRA will be focused on prudential supervision of trustee activities.
February 17, 2020The report provides a toolkit of possible measures for key considerations relevant to authorities for regulating crypto-asset trading platforms.
February 14, 2020The main changes relate to increased reporting, better and more timely disclosure by listed investment companies, and new measures to address listing rule breaches.
October 11, 2019Two First State equity dealers told a UOB Kay Hian remisier about their firm's intended orders to front-run trades in 100 counters, leading to over S$8mn in insider trading profits over 8 years.
July 11, 2019Forward-looking risk assessments are needed in crypto-asset markets to identify trends that may give rise to financial stability and other risks and assess their potential significance early on.
June 4, 2019Over 4 years, approximately 42 million orders containing incorrect or omitted regulatory data were submitted to ASX and Chi-X.
June 3, 2019