Market Infrastructure

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    Securities / Derivatives

    CFTC Publishes First-Ever US Taxonomy for Digital Assets

    By Editors | 11/03/2024

    The digital asset taxonomy is one of three recommendations advanced by the CFTC’s Global Markets Advisory Committee.

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    Market Infrastructure

    US Fed Updates OpRisk Rules for Major Clearing Organisations

    By Editors | 10/03/2024

    Designated clearing and settlement utilities are required to establish an incident management framework and advance their cyber resilience capabilities.

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    Securities / Derivatives

    Vietnam: HoSE Commences Trial Run of New Trading System

    By Editors | 10/03/2024

    Deployment was initially planned for 2015, but the project has faced delays and setbacks, including the pandemic, extending the rollout to nearly ten years.

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    Market Infrastructure

    EU Agrees Measures to Boost Cyber Defence Capabilities

    By Editors | 09/03/2024

    The EU will introduce a pan-European cyber security alert system, a cybersecurity emergency mechanism, and certification schemes for managed security services.

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    Market Infrastructure

    EMMI Finalises Methodology Changes for Euribor Calculation

    By Manesh Samtani | 09/03/2024

    The new calculation methodology will end the use of ‘expert judgement’ to determine the Euribor rate. Panel banks will start migrating around mid-May 2024.

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    Securities / Derivatives

    EMEs Can Improve Shock Resilience With Better Hedging Markets

    By Manesh Samtani | 09/03/2024

    The BIS finds that emerging markets with a more diverse investor base and better-developed hedging markets tend to have more resilient government bond markets.

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    Market Infrastructure

    Final Rules, Guidance Issued for Australia’s New Accountability Regime

    By Mark Johnston | 08/03/2024

    The Minister Rules, Regulator Rules, Transitional Rules, ADI key functions descriptions, and reporting form instructions have been finalised.

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    Securities / Derivatives

    US SEC Enhances Disclosures on Order Execution Quality

    By Editors | 08/03/2024

    The amendments for the first time enable customers of larger broker-dealers to gain access to direct information about aggregate execution quality.

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    Crypto / Digital Assets

    HKMA Commences wCBDC Project to Drive Tokenisation

    By Editors | 07/03/2024

    Project Ensemble could help to forge new financial market infrastructure that can bridge tokenised assets and money in transactions, the HKMA said.

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    Enforcement

    ASIC Issues First Ever Penalty Against Market Operator

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 07/03/2024

    ASX has paid A$1.05mn for a pre-trade transparency failure caused by “carelessness rather than recklessness or intentional misconduct”.

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