HKMA: time for action on benchmarks; Malaysia closes more than half its digital asset exchanges; MAS proposes expanding cyber risk guidelines; ISDA proposes change on CDS market
Regulators extend control of Anbang; Mainland regulations boost HK reinsurers; HK passes bill on profits tax exemption; Singapore and Europe agree on derivatives trading
HKMA and PBOC collaborate on cross-border payments; China's M&A deal volume to remain steady in 2019: Japan: non-banks to handle larger remittances; PBOC launches bills swaps facility; China seizes Rmb10 billion in ...
China backs away from new e-commerce rules; China clarifies tax position for foreign bond holders; AML probe deepens on Japanese bank; RBA takes aim at bank profits; MAS grants first private securities platform licence
Singapore may have scrapped the idea of a centralised database to facilitate KYC checks for now but an advisory body in Hong Kong says the government might not even need one.
Japan grants cryptocurrency body regulatory powers; blockchain firms in China need to register identities; Trading begins at Shenzhen-based HKEx owned commodities exchange.
Regulators are quickly paring back the rhetoric on KYC technology that promised to speed up bank onboarding. The problem now seems no closer to being resolved.
Hong Kong’s securities regulatory chief Carlson Tong Ka-shing may be on the way out, but he has signalled that cryptocurrencies have a future in the city even if there’s still a long road ahead for crypto compliance
The regulator says it’s getting serious about regulatory technology with plans to tackle issues ranging from money laundering to machine readable regulations.