June 2025 Capital Markets Regulatory Update
20 June 2025: European Securities and Market Authority (ESMA) Started its first selection process for a consolidated tape provider (CTP) for shares and ETFs to improve market transparency and efficiency.
19 June 2025: Korea Exchange (KRX) To increase market monitoring and address abnormal trade rapidly, is setting up a rapid investigation department.
13 June 2025: Taiwani Financial supervisory commission (fSC) While proposing a penalty for cripTo-related offenses, a draft bill preceded, while a licensing regime introduced and promoted the self-regulations of the industry to increase the trust and oversite in the virtual property sector.
10 June 2025: the UK Financial conduct authority The final rule for its new platform, private intermittent securities and Capital Exchange System (PISCES), which will enable the secondary trade of private company shares between institutional and sophisticated investors.
6 June 2025: Monetary authority of Singapore Explained that only digital token service providers serving foreign customers must obtain a license, underline the strict stance of MAS on reducing money laundering risks in cross-limit crypto activities.
6 June 2025: FCA Announced its proposal for retail investors to raise the ban on the Crypto Exchange Traded notes (CETNS), which aims to increase the market competition by maintaining security measures through Financial Promotion Rules and FCA-approved trading venue.
5 June 2025: House Financial Service Committee A hearing to pursue the Clarity Act – is the objective of a bilateral bill that aims to establish a comprehensive regulatory structure for digital assets to promote innovation, protect consumers and restore American leadership in financial technology.
3 June 2025: FCA Published an update enforcement guide, maintained the ‘extraordinary circumstances’ tests to announce the investigation and introduce new transparency measures.
29 May 2025: Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Introduced to equity futures and options to improve market stability by increasing transparency, curbing excessive speculation and tightening the status limit and linking them with cash market volume and stock liquidity.
Latest fine and enforcement action
- ASC An agreement was signed with a person, who accepted a market manipulation scheme by incorporating shares through upotic trading and bidding support, which led to a misleading appearance of business activity and artificial pricing.
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The Sindh Special Court issued Pakistan’s first time the sentence of insider trading, which finds the former AVP in a private bank to use confidential bank information for personal benefits, resulting in a financial fine of about $ 31,000.
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Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) Claimed for four persons participating in a coordinated pump-dump scheme targeting Australian Penny shares through telegram groups.
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Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) A personal $ 21,000 was fined to execute trades outside a recognized market.
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FCA He led a global rift on illegal finfluensers, made three arrests, initiated criminal proceedings against three persons, and issued a 50 warning alert that triggered over 650 takedown requests in social media and websites.
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America Commodity Futures Trading Commission A fraud was obtained a final decision against several individuals and institutions involved in the digital asset scheme, ordering more than $ 25 million in punishment and restoration, and permanently banned them from participating in CFTC-regulated markets.
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Siro Canacord genuity corp. with a fine of $ 600,000 Approved, in a US over-the-counter low-priced securities trading to fail at a cost of $ 2.2 million and $ 50,000 at $ 2.2 million disgorcing at a cost of $ 2.2 million and $ 50,000.
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Sebi Stopped 59 individuals and institutions from securities markets for five years and ordered a $ 6.7 million USD to be disguised to orkstrates the pump-end-dump scheme using YouTube videos that mislead them.
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Sebi The former CEO and four senior officials of the IndusInd Bank were imposed a business ban on the alleged attachment to insider trading based on undisclosed accounting discrepancies in the bank’s derivative portfolio.
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FCA Safe Insider Dealing and Money Laundering Decoration against two persons, who used the confidential market information obtained through employment for benefits from the trades executed through third-party accounts.
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