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TFEX Announces Temporary Trading Halt Of Index Futures, Index Options And Single Stock Futures

Date 23/03/2020

SET Will Temporarily Halt Trading Due To Circuit Breaker.

Date 23/03/2020

Hong Kong Securities And Futures Commission Bans Mo Shau Wah For Life

Date 23/03/2020

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has banned Ms Mo Shau Wah, a former account executive of China Pacific Securities Limited (China Pacific), from re-entering the industry for life following her criminal conviction.

CSRC Approves LPG Futures & Options Trading, 1st Gas Energy Derivatives Listed On Dalian Commodity Exchange

Date 23/03/2020

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) releases a notice on March 19 to approve the trading of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) futures and options of Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE). The LPG futures contracts are to be listed for trading on March 30, 2020, and the LPG options contracts will be listed and traded on the next trading day after the transaction of underlying futures contracts happened. The LPG futures and options, as DCE’s first energy product, will effectively expand the service scope and products varieties of DCE, play a positive role in helping enterprises deal with price fluctuation risks and improve the trade pricing mechanism, and exert significance impact on the derivatives market serving the real economy.

Singapore And Australia Agree to Enhance Data Connectivity In Financial Services

Date 23/03/2020

Singapore and Australia have agreed to enhance data connectivity in financial services between both countries under the Singapore-Australia Digital Economy Agreement (DEA). The DEA ensures that financial institutions operating in Singapore and Australia are able to transfer information that they generate or hold more seamlessly across borders.

BIS: Implications Of Negative Interest Rates For The Net Interest Margin And Lending Of Euro Area Banks

Date 23/03/2020

Focus

A bank's net interest rate margin (NIM) is the difference between the interest it receives on its assets and the interest it pays on its liabilities, divided by the amount of its interest-bearing assets. In general, a decreasing level of market interest rates compresses the NIM. But does the effect of a change in the interest rate on the NIM also depend on whether the interest rate level is negative instead of low and positive? And what is the impact of a shrinking NIM on lending?

Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange: Notice On Margins And Price Limits Updates Of PTA Futures And Methanol Futures Contracts

Date 23/03/2020

According to Article 10 of the Measures for the Administration of Risk Control of Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange, Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange (ZCE) hereby adjusts margins and price limits for PTA futures and Methanol futures contracts as follows:

ETFGI Reports Equity Smart Beta ETFs/ETPs Attracted US$3.40 Billion In Net Inflows During February 2020

Date 23/03/2020

ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm covering trends in the global ETFs/ETPs ecosystem, reported today that equity-based Smart Beta ETFs and ETPs listed globally gathered net inflows of US$3.40 billion during February bringing year-to-date net inflows to US$10.13 billion which is lower than the US$14.67 billion gathered at this point last year. Year-to-date through the end of February 2020, Smart Beta Equity ETF/ETP assets have decreased by 8.5% from US$860 billion to US$787 billion, which is the 5thhighest level of assets on record, according to ETFGI’s February 2020 ETF and ETP Smart Beta industry landscape insights report, an annual paid-for research subscription service. (All dollar values in USD unless otherwise noted.) 

Moscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Security RU000A0JWZY6

Date 23/03/2020

As per the Securities market risk parameters methodology, on 23.03.2020, 10-06 (MSK) the upper bound of the price band (up to 96.95) and initial margins (up to 8.75 %) for the security RU000A0JWZY6 were changed. New values are available here

ASIC Recalibrates Its Regulatory Priorities To Focus On COVID-19 Challenges

Date 23/03/2020

In coordination with the Council of Financial Regulators, ASIC will focus its regulatory efforts on challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Until at least 30 September 2020, the other matters that ASIC will afford priority are where there is the risk of significant consumer harm, serious breaches of the law, risks to market integrity and time-critical matters.