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ASIC Annual Report 2019-2020

Date 23/10/2020

ASIC’s Annual Report for the 2019-20 financial year has been tabled today in the Australian Parliament. 

Shenzhen Stock Exchange To Take On The Responsibility As A Trailblazer In The Capital Market And To Promote The High-Level Circulation Of Technology, Capital And The Real Economy - Wang Jianjun, Chairman Of Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Attended The Seventh Western China Hi-Tech Industry And Financial Capital Forum

Date 23/10/2020

From October 20 to 21, the Seventh Western China Hi-tech Industry and Financial Capital Forum was held in Chengdu by the Central Committee of the China National Democratic Construction Association, the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China, the People’s Government of Sichuan Province and Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE). The topic of the forum for the year is “Integrating Technology and Financial Innovation to Promote High-quality Economic Development”. SZSE has co-hosted this technology and finance connection event seven times running. After years of efforts by all parties, the forum has become an important platform for promoting the connection of industry and finance and promoting technological innovation, and has played an important role in supporting economic transformation and upgrading and in boosting high-quality development. Wang Jianjun, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of SZSE, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech.

Dalian Commodity Exchange Solicits Public Opinions On Amendments To The Rules On Introducing Overseas Traders Into RBD Palm Olein Futures

Date 23/10/2020

On October 22, DCE issued an announcement, soliciting opinions from the market on amendments and amended rules on introducing overseas traders into the RBD palm olein futures. The amendments, made to meet the business needs of the endeavor, aim to provide clear rules for overseas traders to participate in RBD palm olein futures trading and delivery, and further offer institutional guarantee for overseas traders engaging in RBD palm olein futures market. The move means a new international product will be added to China’s futures market.

NZX Revenue & Shareholder Metrics - Q3 2020

Date 23/10/2020

Please see attached NZX Revenue & Shareholder Metrics and NZX Regulation Metrics for Q3 2020.

Welcome Remarks By Datuk Syed Zaid Albar, Chairman, Securities Commission Malaysia, Virtual InvestSmart® Fest 2020 (Virtual ISF 2020), 23 October 2020

Date 23/10/2020

Salam Sejahtera, Ladies and Gentlemen

Good morning and welcome to Virtual InvestSmart® Fest 2020.

It is my pleasure to welcome all of you to the seventh instalment of the InvestSmart® Fest, and for the first time it is held virtually... over the next 3 days. I hope the virtual event this year will provide the opportunity… for more Malaysians, from near and far, to be able to participate in this event. And I am told that 40% of the registrants for this year’s InvestSmart Fest are in fact from outside the Klang valley.

ASIC Product Intervention Order Strengthens CFD Protections

Date 22/10/2020

ASIC has made a product intervention order imposing conditions on the issue and distribution of contracts for difference (CFDs) to retail clients.

US Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt Delivers Remarks Announcing Goldman Sachs/1mdb Enforcement Actions, Washington, DC ~ Thursday, October 22, 2020

Date 22/10/2020

Good Afternoon.  I am Brian Rabbitt, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division.  I am joined today by Acting U.S. Attorney Seth DuCharme of the Eastern District of New York, Assistant Director in Charge Bill Sweeney of the FBI, Stephanie Avakian, Director of the Enforcement Division at the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Assistant General Counsel for Enforcement Jason Gonzalez of the Federal Reserve Board.  We are here today to announce enforcement actions of historic significance.

ISDA - Transition To RFRs Review: Third Quarter Of 2020 And Year-To-September 30, 2020

Date 22/10/2020

The Transition to Risk-free Rates (RFRs) Review analyzes the trading volumes of over-the-counter (OTC) and exchange-traded interest rate derivatives (IRD) that reference the selected alternative RFRs, including the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR), the Sterling Overnight Index Average (SONIA), the Swiss Average Rate Overnight, the Tokyo Overnight Average Rate, the Euro Short-Term Rate and the Australian Overnight Index Average.

Joint Statement On UK-U.S. Financial Regulatory Working Group Meeting

Date 22/10/2020

UK and U.S. participants held the third meeting of the UK-U.S. Financial Regulatory Working Group (Working Group) virtually on October 20, 2020.  The Working Group was formed in 2018 to deepen bilateral regulatory cooperation with a view to the further promotion of financial stability; investor protection; fair, orderly, and efficient markets; and capital formation in both jurisdictions.  This Working Group meeting was the first since the United Kingdom left the European Union.  Cooperation between the UK and United States continues to be important, particularly in light of COVID-19 and the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union. 

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Security INTC-RM

Date 22/10/2020

As per the Securities market risk parameters methodology, on 22.10.2020, 23-28 (MSK) the lower bound of the price band (up to 3658) and initial margins (up to 17.5 %) for the security INTC-RM were changed. New values are available here