Korea moves up tighter leveraged product rules to July 31

South Korea said Friday it would move up the implementation of stricter rules on single-stock leveraged products after criticism that the measures would take too long to take effect.

The Financial Services Commission said it would implement stricter minimum deposit requirements, originally planned for August, earlier on July 31 to help stabilize demand for the products.

The FSC unveiled the measures on July 16, raising the minimum cash deposit required to trade single-stock leveraged products to ...