SGX will open a one-hour "liquidity window" from Tuesday to enable European investors to trade Asian bond futures during normal business hours. The window will run 10:00 London / 17:00 Singapore. The initiative is designed to draw market makers and asset managers into the close of the Asian session, reduce the need for European firms to trade overnight or station local staff in Asia, and boost bond-futures turnover.

CSRC deputy office director Wang Li told the Financial Street Forum on Oct. 12 that over the past five years the regulator has pushed higher-quality market development and the Beijing Stock Exchange has operated safely and fulfilled its functions. She said the CSRC will, under the 15th Five-Year Plan outline, promote integrated high-quality development of the Beijing Stock Exchange and the New Third Board (NEEQ), explore systems and practices better suited to innovative SMEs, deepen reform and product innovation, and strengthen market functions to support China’s development as a financial power and high-quality economic growth.

TSMC is targeting US advanced-packaging production in 1H2028 after GlobalFoundries said it signed a $2bn manufacturing agreement to mass-produce COWOS silicon interposers in the US in 1H2028. Amkor’s Arizona plant is also slated to begin production in early 2028, aligning supply-chain timing. Industry estimates TSMC’s first Arizona advanced-packaging fab could start operations as early as 1H2028; market focus is on whether trial production will begin ahead of commercial output.