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SGX’s first session with 10-share board lots showed immediate use of smaller trade sizes: more than 20,000 trades were executed in 10-share lots across the initial 11 securities, while 55% of trades fell below the former 100-share minimum.

Eurex will enter Japanese single-stock derivatives on 2 November with futures and dividend futures on an initial 10 Nikkei 225 names, giving global investors a centrally cleared alternative to bilateral equity-financing swaps.

ICE has opened trading in a new London precious-metals futures suite, bringing gold, silver, platinum and palladium into a centrally cleared market linked to the world’s largest physical bullion hub.

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s summary of 75 submissions puts mobile-wallet access, debit-network routing, token portability and AI-agent payments into the same regulatory decision frame. The RBA will choose its priority issues by the end of 2026 before further consultation from mid-2027.

Nasdaq has filed to preserve a 4:00 a.m. ET or later reopening after a Level 3 market-wide circuit-breaker halt when its 23-hour weekday trading schedule begins.

The CFTC has opened an advanced rulemaking process for a federal regime covering leveraged or margined retail crypto transactions, including a new crypto asset market venue category.

OCC will provide central-counterparty clearing and settlement for IEX Options, taking the U.S. listed-derivatives clearinghouse to 20 participant options exchanges.

CME Group has launched Monday-through-Thursday Micro WTI weekly options, extending the smaller-sized crude-oil contract to an expiry on every trading day.

OKXICE has moved from partnership concept to regulatory execution, filing to operate a round-the-clock venue for tokenized U.S. stocks under the SEC’s new Innovation Exemption.

BitGo and OKX have expanded their off-exchange settlement integration to eligible institutions outside the United States, allowing access to OKX liquidity while supported assets remain in segregated custody with BitGo Singapore.

The European Central Bank has disclosed that the legal agreement underpinning Pontes was approved on 11 August and that the Eurosystem launch was recommended for 21 September. The decision trail confirms that tokenised wholesale transactions now have a production-grade route to settle in central bank money while the permanent Appia architecture remains under development.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed a crypto-specific custody framework for advisers and regulated funds, reopening rules written for conventional assets and defining new routes for adviser or fund self-custody and state trust-company custody.

The Bank of England has reaffirmed its 2028 target for a live synchronisation service linking external tokenised platforms to RTGS central bank money, while testing the model through its Synchronisation Lab and preparing a wider UK tokenisation roadmap later in 2026.

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission has set an operational roadmap for a second-quarter 2028 launch of investor identification in exchange-traded derivatives. Firms must begin client-consent and identity-data work now, rebuild order-management and reporting flows through 2027, then complete testing and market rehearsals before go-live.

The CFTC has registered Coinbase Clearing LLC as a derivatives clearing organization permitted to clear fully collateralised futures, options on futures and swaps. Coinbase says the new USDC-native clearer completes its regulated US derivatives stack and is designed for USDC collateral and 24-hour settlement.

Eurex Clearing has introduced a volume threshold for Single-ISIN repo transactions: after the first 1,000 trades per Clearing Member or Market Participant in a calendar month, the minimum clearing fee falls from €15 to €3 per additional trade.

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission has drawn on DTCC, Nasdaq and HKEX experience as it sequences tokenised-securities infrastructure and considers shorter equity settlement. DTCC said the US T+1 move required more than three years of preparation, while HKEX highlighted the strain created when settlement reform competes with tokenisation, longer trading hours and cross-time-zone operations.

ESMA has asked the European Commission to extend and simplify MiCA, including a regulated service for access to DeFi protocols, binding token-classification opinions and a future framework for tokenised securities and on-chain settlement.

The Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee says interconnected financial vulnerabilities are more likely to crystallise together as sovereign yields tighten conditions, gilt-market leverage remains elevated and AI-related financing broadens capital-market exposures.