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*Singapore and Korea team up on fintech
*CFTC proposal offers comfort to non-US entities
*Philippine SEC to regulate shadow banking lending rates
*FASB updates rules on intra-entity asset transfer
*China opens interbank money market to foreign FIs
*OECD finalising BEPS multilateral instrument
*PBoC appoints RMB clearing banks in US, Russia
*China begins direct trading of RMB, Saudi riyal and UAE dirham
*ADB study points to large trade finance gap in Asia
*PBoC unveils green finance vision
*Cambodia and China sign AML pact
*Sri Lanka gives land lease tax break to foreign firms
*CFETS announces list of participants allowed in interbank RMB trading
*China issues rules to clean up P2P lending
*MAS proposes National Payment Council
*RBI announces rules on group exposure framework
Financial organisations have voiced concerns about proposed changes to Basel III, including changing the way notional pooling is treated, and treasurers are rightly concerned.
*China outlines reserves rule for foreign bank FX trading
*GMFA objects to proposed Basel III revisions on cash pooling
*Singapore confirms steps against financial cybercrime
The Reserve Bank of India has further pushed its plan to get the whole country’s payment and settlement system onto an electronic platform. But the plan, called Vision 2018, does not oblige companies to comply.
*RMB-KRW direct trade starts
*Hong Kong launches RMB indices
*China and Russia ink RMB clearing deal
*Singapore to include RMB in Official Foreign Reserves
Malaysia will adopt a daily rate for the ringgit against the US dollar in an attempt to promote domestic financial markets in line with global best practices.