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Qualified overseas mutual funds may see new encouraging measures in short-term trading.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) is formulating specific short-term trading systems for foreign investors to facilitate their investment in the A-share market, as China steps up effort in expanding opening of its capital market, the Shanghai Securities News reported on Sunday.

On 19 September 2022, the ChiNext Board ETF Option (underlying security: ChiNext Board ETF, Code: 159915) and the CSI 500 ETF Option (underlying security: CSI 500 ETF, Code: 159922) were listed for trading on the SZSE. SZSE Chairman Chen Huaping attended the launch ceremony. Director Zhang Wangjun of the Department of Market Supervision I of CSRC and Standing Committee member Zeng Pai of the CPC Shenzhen Municipal Committee gave speeches via video link, and SZSE President & CEO Sha Yan addressed the ceremony on the spot. Officials and guests from the CSRC system, the Shenzhen Local Financial Regulatory Bureau and relevant market institutions participated in the ceremony. Together, they witnessed another important moment of the SZSE derivatives market.

On September 19, 2022, the listing ceremony of CSI 500 ETF options was successfully held on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE). At the listing ceremony, Pi Liuyi, Deputy Director and First-level Inspector of the Market Supervision Department I of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), attended the meeting by video link. Liu Ti, SSE Executive Vice President, and Yang Xiaosong, General Manager of China Southern Asset Management Co., Ltd. (Southern Asset Management), jointly struck the opening gong for the market of CSI 500 ETF options. Dai Wengui, Deputy Chief Economist of China Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation (CSDC), and Yu Wenhong, Deputy General Manager of Southern Asset Management, unveiled the option contracts.

China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) held the 6th CSRC-MAS Supervisory Roundtable on January 26, 2022 by video conference.

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Under the overall planning and guidance of CSRC, SZSE recently issued the Business Guide of Shenzhen Stock Exchange for Credit Protection Instruments (Revised in 2022). Shenzhen Securities Information Co., Ltd. (SSIC), as one of the first portfolio managers of the portfolio credit protection contracts (“CDX”), launched “CNI-SZSE CDX Portfolio for SZSE Major Issuers” and “CNI-SZSE CDX Portfolio for Major Issuers of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area”, marking the official start of the pilot project of CDX business at SZSE.

Under the overall planning and guidance of CSRC, SZSE recently issued the Business Guide of Shenzhen Stock Exchange for Credit Protection Instruments (Revised in 2022). Shenzhen Securities Information Co., Ltd. (SSIC), as one of the first portfolio managers of the portfolio credit protection contracts (“CDX”), launched “CNI-SZSE CDX Portfolio for SZSE Major Issuers” and “CNI-SZSE CDX Portfolio for Major Issuers of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area”, marking the official start of the pilot project of CDX business at SZSE.

The revision allows overseas issuers to offer CDRs on domestic stock exchanges based on newly issued underlying shares, and determine the offering price through a market-driven book-building mechanism.