The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) - Te Mana Tātai Hokohoko has found audit firms have improved their record keeping in relation to accounting estimates and how they are being sceptical of entities’ financial statements.

Financial stability, sustainable finance, encrypted assets, and cyber security and their effects on financial markets are the most prominent topics discussed in the conference.

Digital money is a logical step in a process of continuous technological advancement in payment systems. In response, central banks are reviewing their conduct of monetary operations in light of the new shape of financial markets and systems. The impact of digital money will depend on the type of money substitution by digital money. The paper straddles several cases where substitution of CiC (currency in circulation), and bank deposits may take place via digital money such as CBDC or other e-money, and how it would impact the central bank balance sheet. Remuneration of CBDC, if aligned to a new objective, could potentially amplify the effect on the interest rate channel of monetary policy.

September 2022

The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) - Te Mana Tātai Hokohoko has filed High Court proceedings against Vero Insurance New Zealand Limited for failing to apply multi-policy discounts, which led to affected customers being overcharged approximately $8.7 million in premiums.

The committee approves activating the initiative to facilitate the requirements for opening investment accounts.

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has today published its Strategy for 2023-2028. In the Strategy, ESMA details its long-term priorities and how it will use its competences and toolbox to respond to future challenges and developments.

China will steadily advance the process of the renminbi's internationalization and the country will make its financial market more accessible to international investors in terms of product supply and trading mechanisms to achieve the goal of lifting the global profile of the Chinese currency, industry experts said.

China will promote financial market opening-up at an institutional level comprehensively as part of its steady efforts to boost the global use of the renminbi, the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, said on Sunday.

Southlink is a mechanism for mainland institutional investors to invest in the Hong Kong bond market through a link between the mainland and Hong Kong basic services institutions. Since its launch one year ago, Southbound Connect has witnessed a growing trading volume and increasingly active investors, which not only increases the investment channels for mainland institutional investors, but also helps to steadily promote the two-way opening of China's financial market.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand – Te Pūtea Matua (RBNZ) and the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) – Te Mana Tātai Hokohoko are inviting feedback on the exposure drafts of standards for financial market infrastructures (FMIs). The Financial Market Infrastructures Act 2021 (the FMI Act) establishes the RBNZ and the FMA as the joint regulator of designated FMIs.

National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors (“NAFMII”) hereby promulgates the Detailed Rules for the Administration of Tiered Management of Debt Financing Instruments of Overseas Non-Financial Enterprises (the “Detailed Rules”) and the Form Requirements for Registration Documents for Debt Financing Instruments of Overseas Non-Financial Enterprises (the “Form”) with a view to fully implementing the policy of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council to expand the open-up of the financial sector in an active and orderly manner and further improving the quality and level of the open-up of the debt financing instruments market. To further regulate the registration and issuances of debt financing instruments by overseas non-financial enterprises, NAFMII hereby provides the notice on the relevant matters as follows: