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Market Infrastructure
Bovill Research Calls into Question Efficacy of FCA’s SMCR
By Shruti Khairnar | 28/10/2020
The FCA’s experience with SMCR could inform senior management regimes in other jurisdictions such as Singapore, Australia and Hong Kong.
Market Infrastructure
China Explores Rule Relaxations to Facilitate Cross-Border Investment
By Manesh Samtani | 28/10/2020
China’s regulators are working to further relax restrictions on cross-border investment and create new channels for domestic and foreign investors alike.
ESG / Sustainability
China Outlines Ambitious Plan on Climate Investment and Finance
By Manesh Samtani | 27/10/2020
The plan, backed by five government agencies, includes the introduction of a carbon market and two-way cross-border participation in green finance and climate-friendly investment.
Fintech / Regtech
BIS, Swiss National Bank to Issue CBDC Proof of Concept by Year-End
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 27/10/2020
CBDC research provides an “essential opportunity” to pool knowledge and resources and help enhance cross-border payments, says Benoît Coeuré, head of the BIS Innovation Hub.
Capital / Liquidity
PBOC Issues Draft Law Aimed at Modernising Central Bank System
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 27/10/2020
The draft law expands the PBOC’s role in preventing financial risks, assigns it responsibilities to society, and provides a legal basis for its CBDC, among other changes.
Fintech / Regtech
Australian Treasury Orders Review of Domestic Payments Regulation
By Shruti Khairnar | 27/10/2020
The review comes after two decades of the regulatory architecture of the domestic payments system being largely unchanged.
Market Infrastructure
Australia: New Report Proposes Changes to Financial Advice Rules
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 27/10/2020
The FASEA regime has created a barrier to many people who seek to provide advice services and to consumers who seek to access them, says a new Rice Warner report.
Market Infrastructure
Singapore Publishes Timelines, Guidance to Support Transition to SORA
By Manesh Samtani | 27/10/2020
Under the timelines, all lenders and borrowers will stop issuing SOR-linked loans and securities that mature after 2021 by end-April 2021.
Market Infrastructure
China to Issue Additional Quotas for Outbound Investment via QDII
By Editors | 26/10/2020
The move, estimated to release quotas by $2-3bn per quarter, is being called one of the biggest relaxations in capital controls in recent years.
Capital / Liquidity
MAS Proposes Amendments to RMO Capital Requirements
By Manesh Samtani | 26/10/2020
MAS proposes to introduce a direct liquidity requirement for recognised market operators, and to revise downward the solvency requirement.
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