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Pan-Asia
FSB Press Release: Second Meeting of the Financial Stability Board Regional Consultative Group for Asia 14 May 2012
China Plans Talks With Japan, Korea on Free-Trade Area (Bloomberg) 14 May 2012
Poor infrastructure smothers Asia’s growth (FT) 8 May 2012
ADB Asia Bond Monitor April 2012
China
CSRC may throw out QFII restriction
(People’s Daily) 15 May 2012
China May Give Foreign Pension Funds New Investment Opportunities (WSJ) 14 May 2012
New IPO Guidelines (JDSupra) 14 May 2012
China Loosens Controls For Foreign Investors In QFII Program – Report (WSJ) 13 May 2012
CSRC releases dividend rules (People’s Daily) 11 May 2012
PBOC News Release: PBOC publishes the “Banking system inspection and quality checking criteria” (Chinese) 10 May 2012
PBOC News Release: PBOC to release the 2012 first quarter report on monetary policy execution and effects (Chinese) 10 May 2012
CSRC Weekly Focus: Futures products with underlying assets in silver are issued in Shanghai Futures Exchange (Chinese) 10 May 2012
CSRC Weekly Focus: CSRC to release details on recent market misconduct of insider trading in the securities market (Chinese) 10 May 2012
NAFMII Weekly Focus: NAFMII to hold internal training on non-financial firm bond product issuance (Chinese) 10 May 2012
China orders "Big Four" auditors to restructure (Reuters) 10 May 2012
More QFII licenses issued (People’s Daily) 10 May 2012
China Weighs Letting in Hedge Funds (WSJ) 9 May 2012
China mulls allowing foreign firms to sell bonds on Shanghai exchange
(Reuters) 9 May 2012
New rules on 'dim sum' bond issuance (China Daily) 9 May 2012
CSRC Press Conference Report: CSRC answers inquiries on cash dividend distribution policy of listed companies (Chinese) 9 May 2012
NDRC issues a Notice on the issuance of RMB bonds in Hong Kong by domestic non-financial institutions (Chinese) 2 May 2012
IMF Working Paper: China's Impact on World Commodity Markets May 2012
Hong Kong
HKEx News Release: Eligibility Criteria Tightened for Designated Securities for Short Selling 10 May 2012
SEHK (a wholly-owned subsidiary of HKEx) letter: Continuous disclosure obligations of issuers 10 May 2012
FSTB Press release: LCQ1: Volcker Rule 9 May 2012
HK seeks clampdown on IPO prospectuses (FT) 9 May 2012
Hong Kong IPOs Come Under Fire (WSJ) 9 May 2012
SFC Consultation Paper on the regulation of sponsors (comments due by 6 July 2012)
9 May 2012
Views sought on IPO sponsors regulation (news.gov.hk) 9 May 2012
HKMA Supervisory Policy Manual (SPM) – IC-5 “Stress-testing” (Revised) 9 May 2012
Hong Kong markets must adapt, SFC says (FT) 8 May 2012
India
SEBI Circular: Review of Regulatory Compliance and Periodic Reporting 14 May 2012
FM, here's the way out of the tax mess: Scrap GAAR (Times of India) 13 May 2012
Keep the flow going (Business Line) 13 May 2012
RBI Press Release: Overseas Investment by Core Investment Companies (CICs)
11 May 2012
GAAR paranoia: FII funds fear Vodafone-like tax (Economic Times) 11 May 2012
RBI Notification: Risk Management and Inter Bank Dealings 10 May 2012
New securitisation norms to have an impact on market 10 May 2012
RBI Notification: Risk Management and Inter Bank Dealings 9 May 2012
India’s GAAR - generally aggravating and ambiguous rules (FT/beyondbrics) 9 May 2012
India Tax Rules Still Baffle Foreign Investors (WSJ) 9 May 2012
Foreign banks to get tax sops for subsidiarisation (The India Express) 8 May 2012
IMF Working Paper: Alternative Monetary Policy Rules for India May 2012
Japan
BOJ News Release: Revisions to the Management of Foreign Currency Assets
11 May 2012
Malaysia
BNM Governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz Address: Global challenges and local opportunities
8 May 2012
Philippines
IMF Working Paper: Determinants of Credit Growth and Interest Margins in the Philippines and Asia May 2012
Singapore
MAS Press Release: Corporate Governance Council releases Risk Governance Guidance for Listed Boards 10 May 2012
Thailand
SEC Press Release: SEC confirms issuance of REIT regulations 10 May 2012
4 May 2012
Global
FSB Press Release: Formation of the Enhanced Disclosure Task Force 10 May 2012
10 May 2012
It's not the data, it's how you deal with it that matters! (LEI) (Bank Systems & Technology)
9 May 2012
BIS Press Release: OTC derivatives market activity in the second half of 2011 9 May 2012
Markets hail Asian Governments Bond Plan (Euromoney) 8 May 2012
ESMA Press Release: ESMA publishes its 2012 regulatory work programme 7 May 2012
7 May 2012
US CFTC Press Release: Joint Statement on Regulation of OTC Derivatives Markets
4 May 2012
IMF Working Paper: Country Stress Events: Does Governance Matter? May 2012
IMF Working Paper: Interest Rate Rules, Endogenous Cycles, and Chaotic Dynamics in Open Economies May 2012
Outstanding Korean Repo Balance in KRW
January 2007 - January 2012
