Financial market infrastructure
BoJ sets out goals for interest rate benchmark reform
Working committee aims to publish deliberations in March 2019
Implementation of new Sofr rate is “ahead of schedule”, says Fed vice-chair
Implementation of new ‘Sofr’ rate is “ahead of schedule”, says Fed vice-chair
Russian central bank starts using biometric database of bank customers
Citizens can submit face and voice data to banks to be authorised for remote transactions
Singapore central bank aims to eliminate cheques but not go cashless
MAS board member reveals new details of scheme to allow payments by QR codes
Brazil tests DLT-based regulatory data-sharing platform
Blockchain will allow regulators to share data more efficiently, says central bank
Banks must understand artificial intelligence – ECB official
Artificial intelligence must not become another “financial craze”, Hakkarainen warns
China opens onshore market to foreign investors
MSCI adds Chinese shares to its emerging markets index for the first time
HKMA rolls out new initiatives to lure bond issuance
The three-year pilot promises to fund half of eligible bond issuance expense, up to a maximum of HK$2.5 million
CFTC chairman expects to resolve EU-US CCP spat
Giancarlo lauds relationship with EU’s Dombrovskis
‘Regulatory equivalence’ not enough for post-Brexit UK CCPs – Cœuré
ECB official says work on cross-border CCP resolution needs to accelerate
European Commission proposes uniform cost for trans-EU euro payments
Dombrovskis also calls for EU-wide transparency on currency conversions
Europe’s CCP recovery rules draw fire
CCPs and clearing members unhappy with proposed allocation of non-default losses
MAS prepares new approach to data collection
MAS says it is moving towards “zero duplication” of data requests and machine-readable regulation
Bank of Russia upgrades interbank loan system
The central bank publishes a clutch of documents on financial technology; says hackers stole $6 million via Swift in a “common scheme”
EU should create ‘virtual’ post-Brexit replacement for City of London – Bundesbank official
Future financial centres may not need “physical proximity”, Wuermeling says
Anti-money laundering technologies can bring new risks – European supervisors
Regulators need to ensure firms understand new technologies, ESAs say
HKMA offers fast-track model vetting in swaps hub pitch
Streamlined process could take just six months, says official
Fed backtracks on CCAR cleared swaps exposure
Regulator had also postponed plan to feed cleared client exposure into G-Sib rankings
ECB approves major financial infrastructure programmes
ECB plans for Target2 and T2S to merge, plus new collateral management system for Eurosystem
Eurozone must improve management of national cash cycles, paper argues
Researchers find wide variations between cash quality in eurozone countries
MAS unveils plans to transform financial service sector
Authority hopes road map will boost financial services growth to nearly double that of the overall economy
HKMA rolls out initiatives to promote ‘smart banking’
Hong Kong authority plans upgrade of supervisory sandbox and modified virtual banking guidelines; real-time retail payment system will be one of first to offer immediate settlement
National curbs hit budding pan-EU settlement market
Restrictions on primary dealers undermine T2S efficiencies, market sources say
Brazil’s central bank creates DLT-based failsafe for RTGS
New system, designed as last line of defence, lacks appropriate privacy, central bank concludes; established solutions also ruled out as alternatives