Clearing & Post-Trade

GIC Adopts Omgeo ALERT to Boost Operational Efficiency

07/05/2015

Omgeo announces that Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC has adopted Omgeo ALERT as its settlement instruction service.

Trading & Investment

China Increases Foreign Access to Domestic Bond Market

07/05/2015

China moves towards liberalising its domestic capital markets by allowing a group of foreign institutions to invest in its domestic bond market.

Structural Regulation

Taiwan to Update Bank Merger Policy in May

06/05/2015

Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission said it will update a policy that will promote mergers in the domestic banking industry.

Credit Risk

Malaysia Central Bank Issues New Guidelines on Restructured Loans

06/05/2015

Bank Negara Malaysia, the country’s central bank, is revising guidelines on restructured and rescheduled (R&R) loans in a move that could impact the asset quality and earnings of local banks.

Structural Regulation

CCB (Asia) Selects Wolters Kluwer to Help Address Regulatory Reporting Requirements

05/05/2015

China Construction Bank (Asia) has announced they will be implementing Wolter Kluwers, OneSumX Regulatory Reporting solution.

Structural Regulation

ASIC Repeals Certain Market Integrity Rules

04/05/2015

Australian Investments & Securities Commission has refined its market integrity rules by removing certain unnecessary compliance requirements on market participants.

Alternative Markets

India’s SEBI to Alter Rules on Alternative Investment Funds

04/05/2015

The Securities and Exchange Board of India plans to introduce changes in the rules on alternative investment funds (AIFs).

Trading & Investment

Dollar Spikes Reflect ‘Normal Market’, Says ASIC in Preliminary Report

03/05/2015

Spikes in the Australian dollar ahead of Reserve Bank interest rates decisions were the result of lower liquidity in the market before announcements are made, Australian Securities & Investments Commission said in a preliminary finding.

Capital Adequacy

MAS Announces Domestic Systematically Important Banks, Publishes Framework

01/05/2015

The Monetary Authority of Singapore has published its framework for identifying and supervising domestic systemically important banks in Singapore including the inaugural list of D-SIBs.