The working group will publish a report in early 2022 and present its findings and policy recommendations, to US and global regulators.
May 12, 2021The FCA proposes to exempt SPACs that identify an acquisition target from being suspended, if they have certain investor protections in place.
May 4, 2021From 12 April, the VCM will allow multiple triggers per session, and a random cutoff mechanism will be introduced in the pre-opening and pre-open allocation sessions.
March 14, 2021The consultation seeks views on whether a legal safe harbour could be a helpful supplement to the provisions inserted into the BMR by the Financial Services Bill.
February 18, 2021ASIC’s Jane Eccleston says trustees of non-public offer funds need to apply for an AFS licence or vary their existing licences by 30 April 2021.
February 15, 2021As markets for tokenised assets develop and grow in size, so too will the need to safeguard investors, consumers and financial stability.
January 27, 2021Phase 2 VCM enhancements will occur in March 2021 in the securities market. VCM and POS enhancements will be applied to the derivatives market in Q2 2021.
January 7, 2021Stablecoin participants and arrangements should register with FinCEN and comply with AML, sanctions, recordkeeping and reporting requirements.
December 31, 2020ASIC is concerned Chi-X as an alternative venue did not see more trading activity during ASX's November outage, as would be expected given participants' best execution duty to clients.
December 22, 2020Following a near-full day market closure, data issues prevented ASX from displaying Chi-X bids and offers on its Centre Point matching system.
November 18, 2020