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  • Firms are expected to up their exchange-traded fund issuance in the Philippines in the coming year, as banks prepare deals following recent regulatory guidance from the country’s chief regulator.
  • The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has found widespread client money handling weaknesses among contracts for difference and margin fx derivatives brokers.
  • Australia-based funds may not be ready to comply with the Dodd-Frank Act when acting as a counterparty with U.S.-registered swap dealers, cutting off a significant market to U.S. firms, according to market officials.
  • The South Korean government’s threat to intervene in its currency appreciation and limiting the fx derivative positions of local financial firms will have little impact on volatility in outstanding fx derivative contracts that reference the won, according to Robert Minikin, senior foreign exchange strategist at Standard Chartered in Hong Kong.
  • E.U. short selling regulation that was introduced earlier this month is putting pressure on the compliance functions of some structured product issuers globally. According to lawyers, those under the most pressure are global financial institutions with multiple affiliates and branches, with it likely that new compliance units will have to be set up to track and match short and long positions across the entire group.
  • It is difficult to predict whether E.U. regulation will be aligned with the U.S. in exempting fx forwards and swaps from the clearing obligation, Rodrigo Buenaventura, head of markets at the European Securities and Markets Authority, told DI.