Regulatory News Wrap for Asia

Monday, 2026-09-07 · covering the last 72h

India

SEBI

No new circulars, press releases, consultation papers or board decisions this window. Two open consultations lapsed for comment on Friday, 4 September: the review of the Settlement Proceedings Regulations, 2018 (proposed replacement: Settlement of Proceedings Regulations, 2026) and the review of KYC norms for individual Persons Resident Outside India (NRIs, OCIs and foreign nationals); no finalised rule from either has been notified as of this morning. The small-value private-placement debt merchant-banker exemption (comments due 17 September) and the OBPP advertisement-code consultation (11 September) remain open, unchanged. SEBI circulars

Exchanges (NSE/BSE)

No material NSE or BSE circulars this window beyond routine settlement-calendar notices.

RBI, IFSCA & other

No new FEMA/FPI, settlement, payment-system or other rule-making circulars from RBI this window, and nothing from IFSCA.

Rest of Asia — Developed Markets

A quiet window: no material new regulatory or market-structure announcements from Japan (JFSA, JPX/TSE, BoJ), Hong Kong (SFC, HKEX, HKMA), Singapore (MAS, SGX RegCo) or Australia (ASIC, ASX, RBA) this window.

Rest of Asia — Emerging Markets

China — CSRC: The regulator opened a one-month public consultation, comments due 4 October, on draft rules governing private-fund fundraising — tightening qualified-investor suitability checks and requiring private fund managers to raise capital only through licensed self-marketing or registered fund-sales institutions. CSRC consultation notice

Korea — FSC: Following the third meeting of its public-private Token Securities Council, the FSC set out a three-phase roadmap extending tokenised-securities rules beyond fractional-investment products to conventional stocks, bonds and funds; draft subordinate regulations under the amended Electronic Securities Act follow later this month, with Phase 1 (institutional private funds/bonds and trust-based tokenisation of unlisted shares) taking effect 4 February 2027. Coverage (FSC policy direction; official release not independently verified)

Otherwise quiet: no new circulars, board decisions or central-bank rulemaking from Taiwan (FSC, TWSE/TPEx, CBC), Thailand (SEC, SET, BoT), Indonesia (OJK, IDX, BI), Malaysia (SC, Bursa, BNM) or the Philippines (SEC, PSE, BSP) this window.

Informational only — summaries of public regulatory and central bank sources; not advice.