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HKEX: Stock Exchange Participants' Market Share Report

Date 28/07/2022

SIX Officially Launches The Swiss GDRs-Leg Of The China-Switzerland Stock Connect Together With Shanghai And Shenzhen Stock Exchanges

Date 28/07/2022

Today, SIX officially launched the Swiss GDR-leg of the China-Switzerland Stock Connect with the participation of senior government representatives from China and Switzerland. In addition to the official launch celebrations, the first Chinese companies aim to list their Global Depository Receipts GDRs this afternoon and trading is expected to start in the newly established GDR trading segment on SIX Swiss Exchange at 3 pm today.

UK Financial Conduct Authority Publishes Decision Notices For Carillion Plc (In Liquidation) And Three Of Its Former Executive Directors

Date 28/07/2022

The three individuals have referred their respective Decision Notices to the Upper Tribunal where they will each present their case. Any findings in the individuals’ Decision Notices are therefore provisional and reflect the FCA’s belief as to what occurred and how it considers their behaviour should be characterised.

Keynote Speech By Tan Boon Gin, CEO Of SGX RegCo, At SGX RegCo-Women In Sustainability And Environment Event On “The Roadmap And Roadblocks In The Financial Sector”

Date 28/07/2022

Good afternoon and welcome to SGX.

I spoke last week at an event on “Climate Reporting in ASEAN” and said, among other things, that as a regulator, we are looking at the adoption of the International Sustainability Standards Board reporting standards. These standards could be finalized as early as the end of this year and lead to more complete, consistent and comparable climate disclosures by our listed companies. 

HKEX Publishes Conclusions On Revising Position Limits And LOP Reporting Requirements

Date 28/07/2022

• HKEX will implement new 5-tier position limit regime for single stock options and futures markets
• HKEX will remove additional position limits for flagship-minis
• The effective date of the revised position limit requirements will be announced in due course

Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission Bans Chan Ka Hey For 6 months

Date 28/07/2022

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has banned Mr Chan Ka Hey, a former relevant individual of Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited (SCBHK), from re-entering the industry for six months from 28 July 2022 to 27 January 2023.

China-Switzerland Stock Connect Officially Launched

Date 28/07/2022

On July 28, 2022, Mr. Fang Xinghai, Vice Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and Ms. Daniela Stoffel, State Secretary of the Swiss Federal Department of Finance, jointly announced the official launch of the China-Switzerland Stock Connect and delivered speeches. Mr. Wang Shiting, Chinese Ambassador to Switzerland, attended and addressed the launch ceremony, followed by speeches of Mr. Thomas Zeeb, Head Exchanges of the SIX Swiss Exchange, Mr. Cai Jianchun, President of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and Ms. Sha Yan, President & CEO of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. The launch ceremony was also attended by Mr. Wang Guojian, Deputy Director-General of the Capital Account Management Department of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange and Mr. Kong Qingwen, General Manager of China Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation Limited.

Shieldpay And Western Union Business Solutions Partner To Provide Foreign Exchange (FX) On International Transactions

Date 28/07/2022

Shieldpay, the market leader in secure digital payments, today announced its partnership with Western Union Business Solutions, a global leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments to provide customers with secure online payments and Foreign Exchange (FX) capability when trading internationally or dealing with foreign currencies.

Participation In Investor Communications Japan’s (ICJ) Proxy Platform Surpasses 1,700 Listed Companies

Date 28/07/2022

Investor Communications Japan (ICJ), a joint venture by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), a global Fintech leader, and the Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. (TSE), announced today that the number of share-issuing companies on its electronic proxy voting platform (the Platform) has exceeded 1,700 listings, an increase of 499 companies since June 2021.

EGX Index Committee Approves The Semi-Annual Periodic Review Of EGX’s Indices

Date 28/07/2022

EGX30, EGX30 CAPPED, EGX30 TR (EGX30 CAPPED, EGX30 TR are having the same constituents of EGX30) witnessed the exclusion of 3 companies with a new 3 companies abiding to the eligibility criteria.  EGX50 EWI index witnessed the exclusion of 8 companies in return to be replaced by 8 new companies.  20 companies were excluded from EGX70 EWI index, 1 of them joined EGX30 index. Finally, EGX100 EWI witnessed exclusion of 19 companies with a new 19 companies.