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The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has formed a securities industry working group that will look into ways to improve the market, two months after suffering its worst ever trading disruption. -
Talk of the European Central Bank extending its bond buying programme to banks sent the iTraxx Europe Senior Financials credit default swap basket back within 20bp of the Main index on Monday and to its tightest levels since the UK referendum vote on EU membership at the end of June.
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The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (Safe) revised the rules for RMB qualified foreign institutional investors (RQFII) seeking quotas, making allowances proportional to overall assets. In addition, all official institutions can now invest under RQFII with no quota limits, the regulator announced on September 5.
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The People’s Bank of China, in collaboration with six other government agencies, has put green financing in the spotlight, releasing guidelines for the establishment of a green financial system.
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Major banks and their counterparties in Canada, Japan and the US entered a last gasp drive this week to comply with new margin rules on uncleared derivative trades ahead of Thursday’s deadline. But while most of the market looked to have averted disaster on the day, one of the key regulatory officials behind the rules had harsh words for the way in which they had been imposed.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is awaiting the ruling in the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit over whether an enforcement action made against PHH Mortgage was legal and constitutional, in the first such suit against the regulator.
