Asia Regulatory Review

ASIFMA & Thomson Reuters White Paper: The Through Train - Stock Connect's Impact and Future The paper examines the implications of, and outlook for, Stock Connect by focusing on three core areas [...]

China to introduce deposit insurance. China is to adopt a deposit insurance scheme to better protect savers and free up interest rates. The Legislative Affairs Office of China's State Council [...]

China's central bank cuts interest rates. The PBOC cut the benchmark rate for one-year deposits by 25 basis points and the one-year lending rate by 40 basis points. This is the first adjustment [...]

China launches landmark Shanghai-Hong Kong stock link program. At the launch ceremony in Shanghai, China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) chairman Xiao Gang hailed the trading link [...]

Regulators approve launch of Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect. The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) have approved the launch of the [...]

ASIFMA Annual Conference 2014 themed "Developing Asia's Capital Markets" to be held on 5-6 November 2014 in Singapore. The two-day flagship conference of ASIFMA is an industry-wide event, [...]

Under the MoU, the SFC and the CSRC have agreed to: provide for the sharing of information and data of risks and alerts about potential or suspected wrongdoing in either the Hong Kong or Shanghai [...]

FSB welcomes industry initiative to remove cross-border close-out risk The Financial Stability Board (FSB) welcomes the announcement today by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association [...]

Asia-Pacific firms unprepared for European T+2 settlement migration Asia Pacific firms are not prepared for a shorter settlement cycle in Europe which will change from trade date plus three days [...]

People's Bank of China Welcomes Direct Trading between RMB and Euro Launched by the China Foreign Exchange Trade System. With the authorization of the People's Bank of China, the China Foreign [...]

G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting. G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in Cairns today have delivered strategies that will achieve 1.8 per cent of additional [...]

Premier says China can hit major economic targets. Premier Li Keqiang said China can meet the major economic goals this year and policymakers will not be distracted by short-term fluctuations of [...]