In today’s briefing:
- KRX’s Revised CFD Oversight Guidelines & Ongoing Suspicious Incidents
KRX’s Revised CFD Oversight Guidelines & Ongoing Suspicious Incidents
- The important point is that the regulations also incorporate a provision mandating the disclosure of the actual end traders’ identities when brokerages engage in CFD transactions disguised as proprietary trading.
- Recent suspicious incidents raise concerns because they are carried out through brokerages’ proprietary trading practices, making them relatively more difficult for local regulatory authorities to detect and monitor.
- We need to closely monitor the market’s abnormal volatility following the strengthened new rules on CFDs and carefully consider the setup for responding to these changes.