{"id":9200,"date":"2012-04-04T20:11:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T18:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=9200"},"modified":"2012-04-04T21:03:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T19:03:04","slug":"financial-markets-bill-tabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/9200\/financial-markets-bill-tabled\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Markets Bill tabled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament&#8217;s finance committee will consider the draft law that will govern the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the trading of listed and unlisted securities with the Financial Markets Bill having been tabled.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed law will replace the Securities Services Act that has been in effect since 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Once passed the new law will bring SA in line with international trends following the 2008\/9 financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>President Jacob Zuma has committed SA to a global regulatory reform agenda, which for the financial sector &#8211; including financial markets &#8211; includes a stronger regulatory framework, more effective supervision, improved crisis resolution, and enhanced accountability through international assessments and peer reviews.<\/p>\n<p>The Financial Services Board has said that it hoped the bill would become effective by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zuma urges countries to invest in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/8630\/zuma-urges-countries-to-invest-in-south-africa\/\"><strong>Zuma urges countries to invest in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament&#8217;s finance committee will consider the draft law that will govern the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the trading of listed and unlisted securities with the Financial Markets Bill having been tabled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26,83],"class_list":["post-9200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline","tag-jacob-zuma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9200"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9202,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200\/revisions\/9202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}