United States

    Clearing & Post-Trade

    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.

    Structural Regulation

    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.

    Clearing & Post-Trade

    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.

    Structural Regulation

    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.

    Trading & Investment

    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.

    Credit Risk

    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.

    Capital Adequacy

    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.

    Clearing & Post-Trade

    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.

    Sustainable Finance

    ACMF Advances Efforts on Sustainable Finance, Regional Connectivity

    By Editors | 20/03/2019

    The ASEAN Capital Markets Forum has endorsed a roadmap for promoting sustainable investment and launched a framework for cross-border publication of research.

    Trading & Investment

    MAS Publishes Finalised Mandatory Trading Regulations for Derivatives

    By Kai Loon Loh | 19/03/2019

    Kai Loon Loh and Patrick Phua at global law firm Ashurst sum up the key takeaways from the MAS response to consultative feedback and the now-finalised mandatory trading regulations.

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