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强化网络安全 (ZH/EN)

BY Asian Legal Business《亚洲法律杂志》 |

为了加强网络安全体系，中国修改了其等级保护制度（“等保”），并于2019年12月1日生效。修改后的等保制度适用中国国内所有的科技、媒体和电信（TMT）公司。
China publishes draft rules allowing listed companies to spin off units

BY Reuters |

China’s securities regulator on Friday published draft rules that would allow publicly traded companies to spin off subsidiaries for separate domestic listings.
Ex-Troutman partner joins EY Law’s HK firm as co-MP

BY Aparna Sai |

LC Lawyers, the Hong Kong member law firm of Big Four outfit EY, has hired corporate specialist Rossana Chu as its co-managing partner from Troutman Sanders, which is set to close its Asia offices at the end of this month.
Freshfields hires KWM antitrust partner as China competition head

BY Ines Yang |

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hired Hazel Yin as the co-head of its China competition practice in Beijing from King & Wood Mallesons.
Global Law Office hires partner quartet from JunHe, Allbright

BY Ines Yang |

Global Law Office has hired Jin Liu, Vincent Wang, Liam Yu, and Yuqing Zhang as partners.
Regulator 'bans financing via OTC derivatives'

BY Reuters |

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has banned the use of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives as a financing channel, in a fresh move to restrict risky shadow banking businesses, according to a CSRC notice obtained by Reuters, and confirmed by two sources.
Regulator 'meets foreign firms as part of probe into illegal insurance sales'

BY Reuters |

China's insurance regulator recently visited foreign life insurance firms and intermediaries in Beijing as part of investigations into the illegal sale of insurance products in Hong Kong to mainland Chinese, the Shanghai Securities News reported on Monday without disclosing its sources.
AgBank fine shows China banks still flunking compliance test

BY Reuters |

Last week's $215 million fine for Agricultural Bank of China Ltd (AgBank), the third big Chinese bank disciplined by U.S. regulators in 16 months, shows Chinese lenders still falling short in their compliance duties.
China regulator probes Dutch firm IMC on futures trading

BY Reuters |

Dutch high-speed trading firm IMC said on Thursday that China's securities regulator is investigating its trading activity in the Chinese futures market.
China regulator 'to launch probe into foreign, local drug firms'

BY Brenda Goh, Reuters |

China's price regulator plans to launch a "large-scale and systematic" anti-trust investigation soon into foreign and local drug firms, state newspaper China Daily said, citing a source close to the regulator.