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Keynote Speech Delivered By Yew Yee Tee, General Counsel And Executive Director Of The Securities Commission Malaysia At The "The Evolving Scam Landscape: Trends And Techniques"

Date 07/08/2025

Welcome to the final day of My Fintech Week 2025. The theme for our session today is simple yet critical, to empower Malaysians with the knowledge on the trends and techniques of the scam landscape.

UK Financial Conduct Authority Sets Out Changes To Payment Safeguarding Rules

Date 07/08/2025

Consumers will be better protected when they use payment firms, with the introduction of new rules to protect their money from May 2026. These changes will improve safeguarding practices among payment firms.

Archax, Verseprop, Spitfire, Daizun And XDC Collaborate On Groundbreaking Tokenised Commercial Real Estate Financing

Date 07/08/2025

In a pioneering step toward the convergence of real estate, blockchain, and regulated digital finance, Archax, Verseprop, Spitfire Group, Daizun and the XDC Network have collectively announced the successful execution of a tokenised commercial real estate finance transaction. The companies believe this marks a significant milestone in the evolution of institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure.

OTP Bank Has Joined CLSSettlement As A Settlement Member

Date 07/08/2025

CLS, a financial market infrastructure group delivering settlement, processing and data solutions across the global FX ecosystem, announced today that OTP Bank Plc. (OTP Bank), has joined CLSSettlement as a settlement member. The Hungarian credit institution is the second new settlement member to join this year, bringing the total number of settlement members to 75.

SET Market Report For July 2025

Date 07/08/2025

Bilateral U.S. trade agreements concluded in mid-July 2025 with reciprocal tariffs finalized at 19 percent for Indonesia and 20 percent for Vietnam have established a major regional benchmark. This development has led to consensus among analysts that Thailand will likely secure similar terms and conditions in its tariff negotiation with the U.S. and that such an agreement will particularly benefit industries with high foreign revenue exposure. Meanwhile, the Fiscal Policy Office (FPO) revised Thailand’s 2025 GDP growth forecast from 2.1 percent to 2.2 percent. These favorable catalysts drove the SET Index to rally in July 2025 with a surge of 14.0 percent from the previous month.

London Stock Exchange Group plc ("LSEG") Transactions In Own Shares

Date 07/08/2025

ASX Supports Strong And Effective Capital Markets In Australia

Date 07/08/2025

Helen Lofthouse, ASX Managing Director and CEO commented:

“ASX is supportive of competition that contributes to strong and effective capital markets in Australia. Our listings business, which competes with other local, regional and global exchanges, continues to offer one of the world’s leading listing venues with more than 2,000 listed entities. We also compete with Cboe in Australia in trading and in listing exchange traded funds. 

Laura Manson Joins NZX As Future Director

Date 07/08/2025

The NZX Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Laura Manson as its next Future Director.

ASX: FY26 Operating Expense Range Related To ASIC Inquiry

Date 07/08/2025

As announced on 16 June 2025, ASX’s guidance ranges given at the Investor Forum on 12 June 2025 did not specifically factor in the costs that ASX may incur in responding to, and supporting, the ASIC compliance assessment and inquiry (Inquiry). ASX has now completed the foreshadowed assessment of those costs. 

Ontario Securities Commission: Harpreet Saini Guilty Of Insider Trading

Date 06/08/2025

The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) announced today that Harpreet Saini of Brampton has been sentenced to six months less a day in jail after pleading guilty on July 25, 2024 to insider trading pursuant to s. 76(1) of Ontario’s Securities Act.