Market Infrastructure

Securities / Derivatives

FIX Releases New Technical Standard on Cybersecurity

By Editors | 26/01/2018

The new technical standard specifies how to use TLS to secure FIX communications, expected to improve cybersecurity across the industry.

Market Infrastructure

South Korea to Introduce AI Market Monitor

By Samuel Riding | 26/01/2018

Korea Exchange says it will introduce AI system in July; could later expand to cover its secondary market, KOSDAQ.

Market Infrastructure

HKEX Says to Improve Risk Management in 2018

By Samuel Riding | 26/01/2018

Charles Li says HKEX to expand Shenzhen and Shanghai Stock Connect to include ETFs, but proposed Hong Kong-London equivalent on the backburner.

Securities / Derivatives

SZSE Reports ‘No Major Risks’ in 2017

By Editors | 24/01/2018

Exchange says risk assessments found more than 100 issues of concern but no major threats; to use big data, text mining to improve risk management.

Capital / Liquidity

IMF, World Bank Issue Reports on India Financial Supervision, Market Infrastructure

By Samuel Riding | 24/01/2018

Reports praise progress but suggest more can be done on governance at public sector banks, market infrastructure risk management, among other issues.

Securities / Derivatives

Banks Will Struggle if Prop Trading is Reintroduced

By Peter Guy | 22/01/2018

US banks lobbied hard for a rollback of the Volcker Rule and a return to proprietary trading to bolster profits. They will soon find that it’s now a different world.

Market Infrastructure

LEIs: Asia Following the Rest of the World

By Tony Freeman | 18/01/2018

Firms in the region either embrace, endure or avoid MiFID II’s LEI requirement, but must accept that it’s not just regulations from the US which now have a profound extraterritorial impact.

Market Infrastructure

Korea Announces Measures to Reform Kosdaq Market to Support Startups

By Garima Chitkara | 15/01/2018

Measures include overhauling Kosdaq listing requirements, strengthening competitiveness, and improving market soundness and investor trust.

Crypto / Digital Assets

MAS in Talks with Blockchain Firm Ripple on Cross Border Payments

By Manesh Samtani | 15/01/2018

Ripple chief says technology can speed up cross-border transactions from days to second, save banks trillions in collateral held against settlement risks.