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  • HKEX Lays Out Key Plans For 2018

    Date 24/01/2018

    • Significant progress in current Strategic Plan and strong market performance, thanks to groundwork in previous years
    • Strive to fill "gaps" in products and services, with FIC and international focus, in next few years
    • 2018 focus: reform listing regime, launch new trading systems in securities and derivatives markets, strengthen risk management, explore market structure enhancements

  • Monetary Authority Of Singapore Issues Prohibition Orders Against Tan Peng Khoon For Fraud

    Date 24/01/2018

    The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has issued prohibition orders against Mr Tan Peng Khoon. Mr Tan will be prohibited for a period of 8 years from:

    (i) carrying on business and taking part in the management of any insurance intermediary under the Insurance Act; and

    (ii) providing any financial advisory service, and taking part in the management, acting as a director, or becoming a substantial shareholder of any financial advisory firm under the Financial Advisers Act.

  • ASIC Reports On How Large Financial Institutions Manage Conflicts Of Interest In Financial Advice

    Date 24/01/2018

    An Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) review of financial advice provided by the five biggest vertically integrated financial institutions has identified areas where improvements are needed to the management of conflicts of interest.

  • Hongshi Holding Group Issues B&R Construction Corporate Bond On Shanghai Stock Exchange

    Date 24/01/2018

    On January 19, Hongshi Holding Group Co., Ltd. successfully issued the "Belt and Road" (B&R) construction corporate bond on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), which was also the first B&R construction corporate bond publicly offered by a domestic enterprise. The success in launching the corporate bond marked another move taken by the SSE to implement the requirements of the 19th CPC National Congress for "pursuing the B&R Initiative as a priority and putting equal emphasis on 'ushering in' and 'going global'" and continuously promote the two-way opening up of the domestic capital market under the unified leadership of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC).

  • Sarcasm As Best Precaution Against Crisis, By Kelvin To, Founder And President Of Data Boiler Technologies

    Date 23/01/2018

    Central bankers around the world shifted priorities in a last minute notice. They postponed deadlines for FRTB revised market risk framework, CVA, IRB, operational risk SMA and others to 2022 and beyond. I have mixed feeling about this because they are rightfully suspicious about the usefulness of risk models or any central risk book. Irony is – risks are likely to be heightened to an unprecedented level in 2018. Let’s plan ahead for 2018’s “irrational exuberance” factors in a sarcastic manner. Who knows, my “sarcasm” may indeed be the best precaution against the next financial crisis!