The Ministry of Finance has developed a draft circular that provides a general legal framework on the electronic trading activities at the stock market.
Trading orders are processed at the Hanoi Stock Exchange. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) -The Ministry of Finance has developed a draft circular that provides a generallegal framework on the electronic trading activities at the stock market.
The draft circular has been sent to the market members to collect their ideasand opinions.
It is expected to ensure that the electronic trading activities at the stockmarket will be transparent, fair, secure and correspond to the Law ofElectronic Trading, the Law of Cyber Security and other regulations.
Under the draft circular, the electronic trading software programmes that arecurrently being used by the market members must be inspected and scanned forsecurity loopholes, and they must also be examined once a year.
Brokerage companies must also develop solutions that allow investors andtraders to use their digital ID numbers and signatures if needed.
Securities firms that are licenced to provide electronic trading services mustsubmit reports on a number of issues such as the electronic trading orders –which occur during the year – system upgrades and changes in the tradingsystem.
The reports must be submitted within seven working days before the brokeragefirms make their system changes and upgrades. The e-data files are alsorequired and must be prepared within five days after the quarter-end day (forquarterly reports) and 30 days since the year-end day (for annual reports).
If approved, the draft circular would replace Circular 87/2013/TT-BTC issued bythe finance ministry on June 28, 2013, regulating the electronic trading at thestock market.
According to the State Securities Commission, 88 securities firms have beenlicenced to provide electronic trading services for investors. The total number of registered e-trading accounts has reached more than 1.1million. In 2016, more than 480 billion e-trading transactions, worth 1.4trillion VND (62.2 million USD), were made.
The highest-level market regulator said that there were some issues with theimplementation of Circular 87, mainly regarding cyber security.
According to SSC, there have been no requirements for brokerage firms, stockexchanges and the Vietnam Securities Depository to provide trading data, whichwould help market regulators to supervise and prevent investors frommanipulating share prices and earning illegitimate profits.-VNA
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Trading orders are processed at the Hanoi Stock Exchange. (Photo: VNA) 
