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Malaysia Capital Market Audit Regulator Issues Annual Report And Annual Inspection Report 2018

Date 25/06/2019

The Securities Commission’s Audit Oversight Board (AOB) issued its Annual Report and Annual Inspection Report for 2018 today. The reports share common inspection findings, trend analysis, and assessment of remediation efforts and progress taken by inspected audit firms.
Hong Kong Securities And Futures Commission Issues Restriction Notices To 14 Brokers To Freeze Client Accounts Linked To Suspected Market Manipulation Of Smartac Group China Holdings Limited

Date 25/06/2019

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has issued restriction notices to 14 brokers, prohibiting them from dealing with or processing certain assets held in their client accounts which are related to suspected market manipulation in the shares of Smartac Group China Holdings Limited between October 2018 and March 2019.
HKEX Special Intra-day Margin Call In Respect Of The HKSAR Establishment Day

Date 25/06/2019

The Traded Options Market will be closed for business on 1 July 2019. In order to assure that safeguards are in place against potential market risk that may arise during the aforesaid period when some of the major markets are open, the Clearing House has decided to make a special intra-day margin call in respect of all open positions on Friday, 28 June 2019.
Tim Beckwith Joins EuroCCP As Head Of Commercial Development

Date 25/06/2019

EuroCCP, Europe’s leading equities clearinghouse, today announces the appointment of Tim Beckwith as Head of Commercial Development. Mr Beckwith joins from LCH Ltd where he was a Director and Head of Sales and Relationship Management for equities.
HKFE Announces Margins for Futures Contract: USD/CNH Futures, CNH/USD Futures

Date 25/06/2019

Please be advised that pursuant to Exchange Rule 617(d) and HKCC Rule 402, the Exchange and the Clearing House have determined that with effect from the commencement of trading on Thursday, 27 June 2019, the margin levels of the following Futures Contracts shall be as follows:

IHS Markit To Integrate Cappitech Technology In SFTR Reporting Solution

Date 25/06/2019

Cappitech, a leading provider of regulatory reporting and intelligence solutions for the financial services industry and IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced an alliance to deliver the IHS Markit Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) solution.
Dubai Financial Services Authority’s Role In Supporting Global FinTech Innovation Highlighted In The First GFiN Report

Date 25/06/2019

Today the Global Financial Innovation Network (GFiN) published a report highlighting the efforts of the international community of regulators, including the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), in driving global FinTech innovation and cross-border testing of innovative ideas.
Eurex Welcomes Swiss Life As Direct Clearing Member - ABN AMRO Clearing Acting As Clearing Agent

Date 25/06/2019

Eurex Clearing’s ISA Direct – a direct clearing membership for the buy side – gains traction: Swiss Life Asset Managers is the first buy-side client using the central counterparty’s ISA Direct service for OTC Interest Rate Derivatives with ABN AMRO acting as clearing agent. With this model, Eurex addresses changes in the regulatory landscape and contributes to the safety, robustness and efficiency of the overall market.
SET, SEC, IAA Join Hands To Develop 100 Quality Stock Research Papers For 3 Years

Date 25/06/2019

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), jointly with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Investment Analysts Association (IAA), has initiated a project to extend securities research paper coverage to cover medium to small sized companies, aiming to roll out 100 stock analysis reports with quarterly updates within three years. These research papers will be useful information for decision-making for investors, an instrumental investor protection, while enhancing analysis reports, for long-term growth of the Thai capital market. The first research paper is expected to be published within Q4/2019.
Comment - Will Euribor Be Discontinued? By Joshua Roberts, Associate Director At JCRA

Date 25/06/2019

The global effort to replace interbank offer rates (IBORs) with risk-free rates (RFRs) represents the most significant challenge faced by financial markets in decades. To date, the brightest spotlight has been on Libor, the suite of IBORs published in London, which is set to be discontinued at the end of 2021. Libor is published for five G10 currencies, four of which (GBP, USD, JPY and CHF) use it as the primary benchmark for their rates markets. As a result, Libor underpins contracts with a notional value of over $350 trillion – more than four times the world’s total GDP.