Cryptocurrency

WEF Announces Global Consortium for Digital Currency Governance

28/01/2020

The consortium aims to address regulatory fragmentation and increase access to the financial system through innovative policy solutions for digital currencies.

Conduct, Culture & Accountability

Australia to Decide on Removal of ‘Conflicted’ Stamping Fees

28/01/2020

Fund managers have been paying ‘conflicted’ up-front commissions to financial advisers and brokers under a 2014 exemption, which ASIC says has resulted in worse investment returns.

Trading & Investment

BSE India Signs Licensing Agreement with ICE Futures Europe

28/01/2020

BSE India is using the ICE Brent Index as the final settlement price for its new rupee-denominated Brent futures contract, which launched on Tuesday.

Clearing & Post-Trade

SEBI Prescribes New Margin Framework or Commodity Derivatives

28/01/2020

Clearing corporations are asked to categories commodity derivatives as low, medium and high risk, and to set new IM and MPOR floors.

Capital Adequacy

Japan Banks to Hold More Capital Against Partner Relationships – Report

27/01/2020

Higher capital requirements could accelerate the unwinding of cross-shareholdings, a Japanese practice of owning shares in business partners.

Structural Regulation

KRX to Cap KOSPI 200 Single Stock Weighting at 30pc

27/01/2020

Institutional investors who mirror the KOSPI 200 index may need to offload an estimated 500-800bn won worth of Samsung Electronics shares to rebalance their portfolios.

Conduct, Culture & Accountability

NAB Units Face Class Action for Mismanaged Superannuation

27/01/2020

The case will focus on NAB’s alleged failure to transfer A$6.3mn of accrued default amounts to MySuper in a timely fashion, as required by law.

Conduct, Culture & Accountability

FSS Korea to Reorganise Consumer Protection Department

24/01/2020

The FSS will reorganise its consumer protection department to boost supervision of high-risk financial products, and establish suptech and regtech teams.

Data Privacy

Australia Considers Opening ‘Write’ Access Under Open Banking

24/01/2020

The government will consider expanding the consumer data right to allow ‘write’ access by entities other than banks, similar to how the EU’s PSD2 operates.