South Korea has rolled out a set of new measures to check equity derivatives trading, Financial Times reports. As per the new rules, institutional investors will be allowed a maximum 10,000 futures and options contracts on options expiry dates. Financial institutions with less than $444.2 million in total assets or investment managers with funds totaling less than $893.9 million will be required to put up margin deposits. Investors that have to put up margin deposits will have to limit their derivatives trades to within 10 times their deposit value.

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