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
Asia’s family offices are booming and French banking group Natixis is making a senior appointment to develop relationships with family offices across the Asia Pacific
As Asia’s economies grow, a business intelligence firm warns that a growing disconnect between distant headquarters and local offices could lead to an increase in fraud as internal audit teams fail to meet the mark.
Treasurers worried about China’s Cyber Security Law after ensuring their companies stay GDPR-compliant will need to soon think about India’s “fourth way” stance on privacy regulation
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.
Close-out netting derivatives get an update; Singapore to ‘ring-fence’ e-wallet deposits; MAS KYC plan ‘in a coma’; China’s new AML/CFT laws aimed at online FIs
China squares up to bond villains; India allows foreign corporates to deal in commodity derivatives; MAS moves on enforcement; China, Singapore deepen fintech ties; Malaysia eases sukuk regulations.
Corporate treasurers and CFOs are backing a weaker renminbi in 2019, betting the People’s Bank of China will weaponise the currency to fight the escalating trade war.