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FIA Japan Financial Market Conference 2015 Registration Has Started

Date 19/03/2015

On May 12th-13th, Futures Industry Association Japan (FIA Japan) welcomes you to join industry leading experts at the FIA Japan Financial Market Conference 2015. We are building on the tremendous success of the previous event held in 2012, which attracted more than 400 attendees from the Japanese and international financial market community. The 2015 conference will address the key issues, challenges and opportunities impacting both the global and Japanese trading environment today.

Korea Exchange: Designation Of Underlying Basket Bonds Used To Determine The Final Settlement Price

Date 19/03/2015

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For Non-Principal Futures On March 18, 2015

Date 19/03/2015

As per p.8 of Principal and non-principal futures listing Methodology (approved by NCC Management Board 29 May 2014) on 03/18/2015, 19-00 (MSK) ri, Xi parameters for non-principal futures were changed to next values:

Shanghai Stock Exchange: Always Striving For Protecting Investors’ Rights

Date 19/03/2015

2014 marked the year for the reform and innovation of China’s capital market, and the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) seized the opportunity to launch wider changes and achieve leaping progress. While sticking to the developing strategies of the blue chip market, the bond market, the derivatives market and internationalization, we placed emphasis on protecting, instructing and serving investors by promoting such innovative businesses as Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect and stock option. With the incoming International Consumer Rights Day on March 15, the SSE provided activities like inviting legal experts to air their opinions and suggestions about “Regulating the Capital Market by Law and Improving Protection of Investors’ Rights”, in a bid to improve the long-term mechanism for protecting investors’ rights in the securities market. Here is our briefing for all investors.

ASIC Issues Major Cyber Resilience Report

Date 19/03/2015

ASIC today published Report 429 Cyber resilience: Health Check(REP 429) to help its regulated population improve cyber resilience.

Pan Xuexian, Deputy To The NPC And Chairman Of The Supervisors Shanghai Stock Exchange: Accelerate Regulatory Transformation, Improve Regulatory Efficiency

Date 19/03/2015

Pan Xuexian, Deputy to the NPC and Chairman of the Supervisors of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), said in an interview with Xinhuanet.com during the 2015 NPC and CPPCC sessions on March 9 that 2015 would be a crucial year for all-round regulatory transformation in the securities regulatory system. With the promotion of innovation and reform, the capital market’s function of serving the real economy will be further enhanced, thus fulfilling its role as a “barometer” for the real economy.

2014 A Stellar Year For DIFC With 18% Growth In Companies, 15% Increase In Leased Office Space

Date 19/03/2015

Dubai International Financial Centre, the mature global financial hub connecting the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) markets with the economies of Europe, Asia and the Americas, yesterday announced results for 2014 that were the second strongest ever since its inception in 2004.

SIFMA Statement On The Revised Implementation Date for Non-Cleared Derivatives Margin Rules

Date 19/03/2015

SIFMA today released the following statement from Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr., president and CEO, after the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) announced a revised implementation date for margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives:

"Margin rules for non-centrally cleared derivatives are among the most complicated and important aspects of the regulatory reform agenda, and the industry has been working hard to get to a position to implement those rules without delay once regulators finalize them.  Given the ongoing national rulemaking processes, we welcome the BCBS/IOSCO decision to extend their recommended start date for the phase-in of those rules. "

British Columbia Securities Commission Panel Fines And Permanently Bans Five B.C. Residents For Market Manipulation

Date 18/03/2015

A British Columbia Securities Commission panel has fined five B.C. residents who were found to have perpetrated a market manipulation that led to a misleading appearance of trading activity in, or an artificial price for, shares in a company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX-V). The panel also permanently banned them from B.C.’s capital markets. 

ISDA Statement On The Revised Implementation Date For Non-Cleared Derivatives Margin Rules

Date 18/03/2015

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) today published the following statement regarding the revised implementation date for non-cleared derivatives margin rules:

“ISDA very much welcomes the extension to the start date for non-cleared derivatives margin rules. The new rules will require firms to make significant changes to their infrastructure, technology, processes and documentation. Firms have been working hard to prepare for the rules, but the changes would have been all but impossible to complete by the original December 2015 effective date, particularly as final rules have not yet been published by US, European and Japanese authorities."