Middle East & Africa Reg Desk
Tuesday, 2026-10-20 · covering the last 24h
Gulf
No material items in the window. Checked individually: Saudi CMA's newsroom (newest items are 18 October — the investment-fund disclosure consultation already reported 19 Oct, a Saaf Riyal Murabaha fund approval and a bonus-share capital increase — nothing on 19–20 Oct); Tadawul's market-news page (nothing past Q2 index-maintenance notices); DFSA's news page (newest remains the 15 Oct enforcement fine; no CP174 policy statement yet); ADGM's announcements (newest remains the 15 Oct Business Centre Framework consultation); UAE CMA's media centre (page broken/empty); and QFMA, Kuwait CMA/Boursa Kuwait and CBUAE via targeted dated search (no October circulars or notices beyond already-known, older items). Noted for a future pass, not yet reportable: Bank Al-Maghrib's reported card-interchange-fee cap, for which no primary circular has been located and which is payments/consumer rather than equities-structural.
Israel
No material items in the window. Checked individually: the ISA (its only live 2026 drafts remain the one-off advice/alternative-assets directive, comment window closed 13 Oct with no finalisation yet, and an August past-performance-publication draft, also unfinalised); the Bank of Israel's Banking Supervision Department (nothing past the already-finalised small/new-banks directive); TASE (nothing past the June corporate-bond-index liquidity reform); and the Herzog Law and Lexology trackers (no new Israel items dated October).
Africa
No material items in the window. Checked individually: JSE/JSE Clear (newest substantive item remains a July Government Gazette notice on JSE Equity Rule amendments); the FSCA (nothing dated October); the SARB's exchange-control channel (nothing past April's Budget-linked circulars); Egypt's FRA/EGX (nothing past the already-known April listing/delisting and short-selling circular package); Nigeria's SEC/NGX and CBN (nothing past July's cross-border trading/custody proposal and June's FX Manual Fourth Edition); Kenya's CMA/NSE and CBK (nothing past January's CMA Circular 01/2026; the National Payment System Bill consultation, closed 9 Oct, still has no Cabinet action); and Morocco's AMMC/Bank Al-Maghrib (nothing dated October beyond the unconfirmed interchange-cap item noted above). Mondaq/Lexology sweeps for South Africa and Israel turned up nothing newer either.
Informational only — summaries of public regulatory and central bank sources; not advice.