Chief financial regulator vows additional measures to curb demand for leveraged ETFs

The chief financial regulator said Tuesday it will consider additional measures to dampen demand for recently introduced single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds, which have been blamed for heightened volatility in the stock market.

At a meeting with local brokerages and asset management firms, Lee Eog-weon, chairman of the Financial Services Commission, said he will assess the impact of a new policy under which the minimum cash deposit required to invest in single-stock leveraged ETFs will ...