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Capital / Liquidity
Federal Reserve Consults on New Rules for Foreign Banks in the US
By Editors | 11/04/2019
The proposals could relax capital and stress testing requirements for US branches of foreign banks, but impose stricter liquidity rules on those that engage in riskier activities.
AML / KYC
Standard Chartered Fined Over $1bn by US, UK Authorities
By Editors | 10/04/2019
Standard Chartered Bank will pay $947mn to US authorities for poor AML controls and sanctions breaches, and $134mn to the UK FCA for AML breaches.
Market Infrastructure
DTCC Partners with Droit to Automate Pre-Reporting Decision-Making
By Editors | 10/04/2019
DTCC’s pre-reporting solution can now determine – in real-time – the global cross-regulatory reporting implications and obligations for a particular transaction.
Securities / Derivatives
Merger Benefits Diminished Under Existing JPX-TOCOM Plan
By Editors | 07/04/2019
The current plan to keep crude oil and petroleum products on TOCOM will diminish the benefits of the planned merger with JPX.
Big Picture
Talking Disintermediation by DLT with DTCC’s Rob Palatnick
By Manesh Samtani | 04/04/2019
Regulation Asia sat down with DTCC’s Rob Palatnick to discuss his views on how far DLT will go in disintermediating the financial industry.
Market Infrastructure
EU, Singapore Adopt Decision to Mutually Recognise Derivatives Venues
By Editors | 01/04/2019
The European Commission recognises Singapore trading venues as MiFIR-compliant; MAS has exempted EU trading facilities from its markets licensing requirements.
Market Infrastructure
Automated Trading Does Not Impact End-of-Day Volatility – CFTC
By Editors | 01/04/2019
A new report reveals that the rise of automated orders has not resulted in a systematic increase in end-of-day price volatility over a 6 year period.
Market Infrastructure
CFTC Approves Margin Comparability Determination for Australia
By Editors | 28/03/2019
Despite some differences between its own rules and Australia’s regime for uncleared swaps margining, the CFTC has determined that the end result is the same.
Market Infrastructure
CFTC Expands Margin Comparability Determination for Japan
By Editors | 27/03/2019
The amended determination for Japan finds comparability regarding the scope of entities subject to the margin requirements, and the treatment of margining for inter-affiliate transactions.
Market Infrastructure
Leading Dealers Adopt DTCC-Euroclear Collateral Management Utility
By Editors | 26/03/2019
The Margin Transit Utility provides straight-through-processing and centralised communications and settlement instructions for collateral transfer.
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