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Thai Bourse Rolls Out 2014 Plan To Build Quality, Reform Thai Capital Market; Becomes ASEAN’s Leader In Key Areas In 2013

Date 23/12/2013

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) announces its three-year (2014-2016) strategy on “Energizing the industry for sustainable growth,” which in 2014 aims to build a quality-focused capital market culture, become a key Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) connector, and enhance infrastructure and capability to cope with any uncertainty, while proceeding with plans for its new derivatives trading system to go live by mid-2014.
ASIC Helps Develop IOSCO Report On The Regulation Of Retail Structured Products

Date 23/12/2013

The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) today published a final report on Regulation of retail structured products, which provides a toolkit outlining regulatory options that securities regulators globally may find useful to regulate retail structured products.
MNI India Consumer Indicator Rises To 123.9 In December From 122.5 In November - Inflation Expectations Fall After November Peak

Date 23/12/2013

The MNI India Consumer Indicator rose for the third consecutive month in December to the highest since May, as consumers reported that it was a better time to purchase a large household good and that they expected their finances to improve in the future.
ASIC: Australian Banks Achieve Positive ‘Substituted Compliance’ Outcomes From The CFTC

Date 23/12/2013

ASIC has today welcomed the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) 20 December 2013 announcement on substituted compliance.
The Amman Stock Exchange Resumes Its Operations As Usual On Sunday Dec 22, 2013

Date 22/12/2013

The Amman Stock Exchange announces that it will resume its operations as usual on Sunday Dec 22, 2013, therefore the Trading Session would be back to normal market hours.

EBA Publishes Final Draft Technical Standards On Market Risk And CVA Risk

Date 21/12/2013

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today (20 December) its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the definition of market and its final draft RTS on Credit Valuation Adjustment risk (CVA risk). The latter is supplemented by an Opinion on CVA risk which further elaborates on the approach taken by the EBA in determining a proxy spread. The standards will be part of the Single Rulebook aimed at enhancing regulatory harmonisation in the banking sector in the European Union (EU).
Tehran Stock Exchange Weekly Digest - 18 December

Date 21/12/2013

TSE’s broad index gained 1.4% in the week ended 18 December.
CFTC Staff Issues Time-Limited No-Action Letter From Certain Entity-Level Internal Business Conduct Requirements For Certain Swap Dealers And Major Swap Participants Established Under The Laws Of Australia, Canada, The European Union, Japan, And Switzerland

Date 21/12/2013

Today, the Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a time-limited no-action letter that provides relief to non-U.S. SDs and non-U.S. MSPs established in Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, and Switzerland from compliance with Commission regulations 23.600(c)(2) and 23.608, and, in the case of a non-U.S. SD or non-U.S. MSP established in Switzerland, 23.609.
CFTC Staff Issues Time-Limited No-Action Letter On The Applicability Of Oral Recording Requirements For Certain Members Of Swap Execution Facilities

Date 21/12/2013

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight and the Division of Market Oversight (Divisions) today issued a time-limited no-action letter that provides relief to commodity trading advisors that are members of swap execution facilities. The relief covers the oral recording requirement set forth in Commission Regulation 1.35(a).
CFTC’s Division Of Market Oversight Provides Conditional Time-Limited No-Action Relief To Australian-Based Trading Platform Yieldbroker Pty Limited

Date 20/12/2013

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (Commission) Division of Market Oversight (Division) issued a letter today providing time-limited relief to Commission-registered swap dealers (SDs) and major swap participants (MSPs) that are non-U.S. persons (non-U.S. SDs and non-U.S. MSPs, respectively) established under the laws of Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan or Switzerland, and that are not part of an affiliated group in which the ultimate parent entity is a U.S. SD, U.S. MSP, U.S. bank, U.S. financial holding company or U.S. bank holding company, from certain requirements of the swap data reporting rules set forth at Part 45 and Part 46 of the Commission’s regulations.