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HKEx And SGX Cooperate On RMB Internationalisation And Connectivity

Date 04/12/2013

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) and Singapore Exchange (SGX) today agreed to cooperate in several areas of common interest, which include promoting the internationalisation of the Renminbi by exploring joint product development; enhancing connectivity through points of presence in each other’s data centres; collaborating on technology development and regulatory issues; and may work closely in relation to extraterritorial market infrastructure regulation impacting the Asian region.
ASIC Finds Advice On Complex Capital Protected Products Needs To Improve

Date 04/12/2013

ASIC’s assessment of advice provided by financial services firms to investors about capital protected products found many advisers did not make adequate enquiries into their clients’ personal circumstances.
Vice President Xu Ming Of The Shanghai Stock Exchange: Change Mode Of Statutory Listing Conditions, Usher In New Listing Systems

Date 04/12/2013

“Perfection of the legal system for listed companies is an important task for amending the ‘Securities Law’”, said Vice President Xu Ming of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) at the 4th SSE Legal Forum yesterday. He suggested that the mode of statutory conditions for securities’ listing should be changed, while some new listing systems, such as “Board Switch” and “Listing by Introduction” should be ushered in. Besides, efforts should be made to simplify conditions and procedures for refinancing and work out diversified modes of merger, acquisition, and reorganization.
Summary Of November 2013 Activities At Tokyo Commodity Exchange - TOCOM November 2013 Volume Averaged 74,712 Contracts Per Day, Down 7.2%

Date 04/12/2013

The Tokyo Commodity Exchange announced today that November 2013 trading volume averaged 74,712 contracts per day, down 7.2% from October 2013. Average daily volume increased for some key commodities such as Crude Oil; which was up 13.1% to 3,881 contracts; Kerosene, which was up 29.7% to 4,387; and Rubber, which was up 10.2% to 8,116 contracts. However, the most actively traded Gold contract fell 21.9% to 26,553 contracts.
Dalian Commodity Exchange: Intra-Group Factory Warehouse Receipts Swap Business Piloted For Soybean Meal Futures

Date 04/12/2013

On December 2, Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) issued the "Notice on Dalian Commodity Exchange Cooperating with China Agri-Industries Holdings Limited and Cargill Investment (China) Co., Ltd. in Piloting the Intra-group Factory Warehouse Receipts Swap Business for the Soybean Meal Futures” (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), and China Agri-Industries Holdings Limited and Cargill Investment (China) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the "pilot groups") cooperating with DCE in piloting the warehouse receipts swap business shows a new way piloted on the soybean meal futures product to solve the frequent problem of uncertain delivery sites for the buyers in delivery on the domestic futures market.

ASX Compliance Monthly Activity Report – November 2013

Date 04/12/2013

New listings for the month were Aquaint Capital Holdings Limited (AQU), Freelancer Limited (FLN), McAleese Limited (MCS), PS&C Limited (PSZ), Series 2013-2 WST Trust (WSD), Sunbridge Group Limited (SBB) and Sydney Airport Limited (SYD).
Tokyo Commodity Exchange Year-end / New Year Business Schedule

Date 04/12/2013

Business schedule for the year-end / new year
Notice On Dalian Commodity Exchange Cooperating With China Agri-Industries Holdings Limited And Cargill Investment (China) Co., Ltd. In Piloting The Intra-group Factory Warehouse Receipts Swap Business For The Soybean Meal Futures

Date 04/12/2013

To promote the effective functioning of the soybean meal futures market, encourage the feed enterprises to make use of the soybean meal futures market in hedging, provide the buying clients with convenient delivery services and further reduce delivery costs, Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) has introduced the program of the intra-group factory warehouse receipts swap for the soybean meal after in-depth survey and research and drawing on the experience in the practices of warehouse receipts swap both at home and abroad.
Keynote Address By CFTC Commissioner Scott D. O’Malia, Setting Priorities And Fixing Broken Rules Must Be Commission’s First Order Of Business In 2014, 9th Annual FIA Asia Derivatives Conference. The St. Regis, Singapore

Date 04/12/2013

Thank you very much for the kind introduction and for inviting me to speak here today.
Gui Minjie Governor Of The Shanghai Stock Exchange: Launching More Convenient, Flexible Trading Mechanism For Big-cap Blue Chips

Date 04/12/2013

Gui Minjie, Governor of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), said at the 4th SSE Legal Forum that the SSE would base itself on the orientation of organizing, serving, and managing the market and, with the spirit of reform, accelerate the construction of the SSE market. The key of its reform and construction would be in the two fields of the market system and the opening-up, which included the SSE’s four strategies, that is, making the blue chip market bigger and stronger, promoting the great-leap-forward development of the bond market, breaking through the development bottleneck of securities derivatives, and enhancing the openness of the market. And with regard to the strategy of breaking through the development bottleneck of securities derivatives, the preparatory work for individual-stock-option-related business lines, rules, techniques, and market mobilization had been ready after a long time of efforts, and the time had come and the conditions had been ripe for launching.