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TREE NEWS reports: The People’s Bank of China has further adjusted and refined several monetary policy tools on top of the structural measures introduced earlier this year. Authorities say the two rounds of structural monetary policy packages rolled out in 2026 are targeted and practical amid the shift in growth drivers, helping financial institutions better serve the real economy. As existing and new measures combine, the financial system will keep supporting high-quality real-economy development.

TREE NEWS update: The People’s Bank of China will conduct a 700 billion yuan outright reverse repo operation on October 15, 2026, using a fixed-quantity, rate-tender, multiple-price auction, the central bank said. The operation carries a six-month term of 182 days, maturing April 15, 2027, with the date adjusted for public holidays. The PBOC said the move is aimed at keeping banking-system liquidity ample.

TREE NEWS update: Orient Securities has received approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission to issue corporate bonds with a total face value of no more than RMB 60 billion, the brokerage said. The CSRC registration clears the way for the Shanghai-listed firm to proceed with the debt sale, though no timetable or pricing details were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: A tester who leaked unreleased Genshin Impact characters and event information to overseas recipients has lost his final appeal, developer miHoYo said on October 14. The second-instance court upheld the original ruling that tester Jin infringed trade secrets, ordering him to stop the infringement and pay 500,000 yuan in economic losses and reasonable expenses.

TREE NEWS update: miHoYo’s legal department disclosed on October 14 that the trade secret infringement case involving an offline tester for Genshin Impact who leaked unreleased character and event information has reached its final ruling. The second-instance court rejected the appeal and upheld the original judgment, finding that tester Jin infringed on trade secrets, ordering him to cease the infringement and pay miHoYo a total of 500,000 yuan in economic losses and reasonable expenses.

TREE NEWS update: China’s National Intellectual Property Administration and the General Administration of Customs jointly issued an opinion on strengthening coordinated intellectual property protection, state media reported on the 14th. The document calls for leveraging the respective strengths of IP administrators and customs to form joint working capacity and advance full-chain IP protection, aiming to foster a sound business and innovation environment and support the building of an IP powerhouse.

TREE NEWS reports: China’s National Intellectual Property Administration and the General Administration of Customs jointly issued an opinion on the 14th on strengthening coordination in intellectual property protection, state media reported. The document calls for leveraging the respective strengths of intellectual property administrators and customs to form a joint working capability and advance intellectual property protection across the entire chain. It aims to foster a sound business and innovation environment and support the building of an intellectual property powerhouse.

TREE NEWS update: South Korea’s Financial Services Commission said about 100,000 pieces of personal information from 16 domestic financial companies were leaked in a hacking incident. No data that could directly lead to fraudulent transactions has been found leaked so far. Regulators will conduct a full review of the firms’ security systems, and the number of affected companies could rise as checks against attackers’ IP addresses continue.

TREE NEWS update: The IMF and the World Bank have unveiled a global roadmap to fight online financial fraud. Prepared jointly with the Bank of Thailand, it was released on Wednesday at their annual meetings held in Bangkok. The document, called the ‘Bangkok Blueprint,’ sets out 12 policy recommendations to help countries identify risk gaps and build coordinated responses. This comes as increasingly sophisticated scams erode public trust in digital finance.

TREE NEWS reports: The IMF and the World Bank have announced a global roadmap to fight online financial fraud. Developed jointly with the Bank of Thailand, it was unveiled on Wednesday at their annual meetings in Bangkok. The document, called the ‘Bangkok Blueprint,’ sets out 12 policy recommendations to help countries identify risk gaps and build cooperative responses. This comes as increasingly sophisticated scams erode public trust in digital finance.

TREE NEWS update: The IMF and the World Bank have unveiled a global roadmap to combat online financial fraud. Developed jointly with the Bank of Thailand, it was published on Wednesday at their annual meetings held in Bangkok. The document, called the “Bangkok Blueprint,” sets out 12 policy recommendations to help countries identify risk gaps and build a coordinated response, as increasingly sophisticated scams erode public trust in digital finance.

TREE NEWS update: The IMF and World Bank released a global roadmap to combat online financial fraud, developed with the Bank of Thailand and unveiled Wednesday during their annual meetings in Bangkok. The document, called the Bangkok Blueprint, sets out 12 policy considerations to help countries identify risk gaps and build coordinated responses, as increasingly sophisticated scams erode public confidence in digital finance.

TREE NEWS reports: The IMF and the World Bank have announced a global roadmap to combat online financial fraud. Developed jointly with the Bank of Thailand, it was published on Wednesday at their annual meetings in Bangkok. The document, called the ‘Bangkok Blueprint,’ presents 12 policy recommendations to help countries identify risk gaps and build coordinated responses, as increasingly sophisticated fraud undermines public trust in digital finance.

TREE NEWS update: China’s National Healthcare Security Administration said at a party group meeting on Oct. 13 that it will explore a pre-project pricing system for medical service prices, to help more new drugs and medical technologies enter scaled clinical use faster. The bureau also plans to pool and upload medical insurance imaging cloud indexes to form a unified national imaging big-data set, and to advance pilot personal medical insurance cloud construction.

TREE NEWS update: China’s futures market had 3.148 million effective clients as of the end of September 2026, Wang Ying, deputy director of the futures supervision department at the China Securities Regulatory Commission, said. Commodity futures trading volume has ranked among the world’s highest for several consecutive years, with market depth and capacity continuing to strengthen, she said.

TREE NEWS update: The Securities Association of China has told brokerages to bar analysts from directly using unverified AI-generated data, opinions, market projections and research conclusions, citing risks from model hallucinations. In its 2025 statistical report on securities research business, the association said firms generally have not defined where AI may be used in research and impose no management requirements on AI-supplied material, and that some analysts publicly used unverified AI-generated errors, damaging the industry’s credibility.

TREE NEWS update: Singapore has established a Frontier AI Resilience and Security Task Force, the government announced. The body is tasked with addressing resilience and security issues raised by frontier artificial intelligence. No further details on its membership, mandate or timeline were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic has asked a Washington federal appeals court to reconsider its September 25 ruling upholding the Trump administration’s designation of the company as a supply-chain risk to US national security. Anthropic argues the judges misread the law by allowing the Defense Department to act without any prior determination process, despite evidence the designation retaliated against its statements on AI safety. The dispute will decide whether federal agencies or private companies control AI safety safeguards.

TREE NEWS reports: The People’s Bank of China and its branches issued more than 40 administrative penalties against licensed payment institutions in the first three quarters of 2026, with total fines and confiscations exceeding 350 million yuan. The largest single penalty reached 74.45 million yuan. Regulators applied a dual-penalty system, holding both the institutions and their executives and directly responsible persons accountable.

TREE NEWS reports: A local Chinese financial regulator has set up a monitoring model for “involution-style” competition, an official said, flagging improper assessment incentives, irrational pricing and improper rebates in bank lending. Some banks are poaching loan clients from rivals with lower rates, longer terms and looser approval standards, the official said, warning this creates lagging credit risk. The regulator will guide banks into differentiated competition for commercial sustainability.