China's financial authorities have released regulations to optimize fund management requirements for foreign institutional investors in the country's bond market.

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

The Board of the Financial Supervisory Authority (FIN-FSA) has decided to keep the loan cap, i.e. the maximum loan-to-collateral (LTC) ratio, unchanged. The loan cap was adjusted last year by lowering the maximum LTC ratio for new residential mortgage loans other than first-home loans by 5 percentage points, to 85%. The Board has also decided to keep the countercyclical capital buffer (CCyB) requirement for banks at its standard level.

The Bank of Russia’s requirements to suspend sales or refund customers will cover financial products which are systematically missold.

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:

NAFMII released new Guidelines Respecting Underwriting Due Diligence for Non-financial Enterprise Debt Financing Instrument (hereinafter referred to as the new Guidelines) in December, an effort to reinforce underwriting due diligence practices in light of recent years' development in the interbank bond market.

On July 26, “Penghua Shenzhen Energy REIT”, the first infrastructure REITs in the clean energy field in China, was successfully listed on SZSE. It’s an embodiment of SZSE’s implementation of the “carbon peak and carbon neutrality” strategy of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council and the requirements of the 14th Five-year Plan. It is also a pragmatic measure of SZSE to give full play to the function of publicly offered REITs securitization, promote positive circulation of existing assets and new investments in the clean energy field, and support economic and social transformation and development.

China's central bank on Monday said that it will cut the foreign exchange reserve requirement ratio for financial institutions by 2 percentage points from Sept. 15.

On 8 July 2022, Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) issued new guidance and requirements regarding investments in virtual assets and insurance-linked securities (ILS) by SFC-authorised funds.