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Free Newsletter Get the hottest Fintech Singapore News once a month in your Inbox Indonesia’s Bappebti has officially handed over regulatory and supervisory responsibilities for digital financial assets, including cryptocurrencies and financial derivatives, to the Financial Services Authority (OJK) and Bank Indonesia (BI). This move aims to provide greater legal certainty and stability within the […]

The market regulator does not intend to introduce more measures to restrict activity in derivatives but there was a need to measure risks better, a senior official said on Saturday. “Derivatives are good for the market ecosystem as they aid in price discovery and create depth in the market,” SEBI’s Whole-Time Member Ananth Narayan said […]

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) may revise the ₹500-crore exposure or open interest limit each in index futures and options introduced for institutional investors—foreign portfolio investors and mutual funds—after the covid-19 outbreak in March 2020. The markets regulator proposes to change the methodology for measuring open interest (OI), the value of outstanding […]

MUMBAI: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is working to further improve the system, including risk management and the ease of doing business, for trading activities in the derivatives segment, according to a SEBI official who ruled out any plans to impose additional curbs or restrictions on derivative trading. An expert group under […]

Sebi not mulling any steps on “suitability and appropriability”, which will determine who can trade in the derivatives market Published Date – 11 January 2025, 06:14 PM Mumbai: The capital markets regulator is not planning any more measures to curb or restrict activity in derivatives, Sebi’s Wholetime Member Ananth Narayan said on […]

The capital markets regulator is not planning any more measures to curb or restrict activity in derivatives, Sebi’s Wholetime Member Ananth Narayan said on Saturday. An expert group under former RBI executive director G Padmanabhan continues to work on bettering the system, and some moves on ease of doing business and better risk management are […]

The derivatives trading industry looks to invest ahead of what is expected to be a busy 2025 amid rising sentiment across the global derivatives market in Q4 2024, according to a report commissioned by SGX and conducted by Acuiti. The SGX Global Market Sentiment Index was based on a quarterly poll of Acuiti’s Expert Networks, […]

QCP, a digital asset market maker in Singapore, said it executed the first derivatives trade using a tokenized fund from BlackRock as collateral, as improving collateral mobility has been identified as one of the biggest potential benefits of finance moving to distributed ledger technology. BlackRock launched its USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) on the ethereum […]

In a significant development for the cryptocurrency market, Dogecoin (DOGE) has witnessed an extraordinary surge in its network activity, marked by a 41% increase in large transaction volume and a 35% spike in daily active addresses. This surge comes amid growing institutional interest in the meme-inspired cryptocurrency. Key Highlights: Large transaction volume increased by 41.12% […]

For further deepening of the capital markets, there was a need to widen the pool of listed companies and encourage more spot transactions for price discovery, rather than having reliance on derivatives, Challa Sreenivasulu Setty, chairman, State Bank of India said on Friday. “The way forward for India is to be self-sufficient in efficient mobilisation […]