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:

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s securities markets regulator, today publishes the second Trends, Risks and Vulnerabilities (TRV) Report of 2022. The Russian war on Ukraine against a backdrop of already-increasing inflation has profoundly impacted the risk environment of EU financial markets, with overall risks to ESMA’s remit remaining at its highest level.

The Financial Markets Authority has released its annual corporate plan 2022/23 by signalling a period of change for both the financial services industry and the regulator itself.

The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) – Te Mana Tātai Hokohoko has completed a review of 14 KiwiSaver and other managed funds to establish how well they are applying the FMA’s integrated financial product (IFP) guidance.

DBS has been participating deeply in the opening-up of China's financial market.

The sophisticated financial markets and innovative financial insurance in the United States could be combined with Chinese leading efforts in green finance

Chinese authorities have decided to help foreign trade enterprises fend off foreign exchange rate risks amid a volatile international financial market situation.

China will strengthen efforts to prevent and defuse financial risks to stabilize the financial market in 2022, according to the central bank.

China's foreign exchange reserves edged down to $3.2138 trillion by the end of February due to a stronger dollar and a fall in global financial markets, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said on Mar.7.