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Implementation necessary after wide-ranging changes last year
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Bankers in China have raised concerns around regulating Ant Group, which is gearing up for a mammoth dual listing in Hong Kong and the Star board. Although the Alibaba Group Holding-backed firm calls itself a technology company, a big chunk of its revenues come from the financial sector — creating headaches due to the absence of a cohesive regulatory framework for such companies. -
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has said that making sure staff could work remotely hindered the ability of financial firms to work on regulatory and IT projects, in a final report calling for the implementation of a set of rules on settlement discipline — including on mandatory buy-ins — to be delayed until 2022.
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The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has delayed the implementation date of the adverse market refinance fee to December 1, following a wave of criticism from mortgage market participants. With more time to prepare before implementation, sources say the fee is a logical move on the part of the agencies to allow all players in the market to benefit from low mortgage rates, as well as shore up capital to cover losses stemming from the pandemic.
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In this round-up, China’s official Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for August misses expectations by a small margin, BlackRock becomes the first global asset manager to enter the mutual fund industry onshore, and the sale of TikTok’s US operations faces new challenges as Beijing tightens technology export controls.
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In this round-up, senior trade officials from China and the US hold ‘constructive’ talks, the securities regulator publishes the latest ratings for Mainland brokerages, and the Shenzhen exchange hopes to attract listings from companies with weighted voting rights (WVR).
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Klaus Löber has been selected by the European Securities and Markets Authority as chair of its CCP supervisory committee. ESMA has also picked two other members; all three will be assessed by the European Parliament.
