Microsoft’s group treasurer tells CT its role in a world first - a Swift payment on the cloud, a key step to lifting the software firm’s entire operations off-premise
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.
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
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 Philippine central bank is resorting to a measure first implemented in the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. Is this the first sign of a big chill in regional FX markets?
Despite the slide in the prices of bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency this year, a panel of fintech experts at the Refinitiv Pan Asian Regulatory Summit believe crypto finance is here to stay
China brings in further WMP measure; stress tests for MMFs; Basel committee publishes Basel III monitoring results; Indonesia: deadline passes for Shariah P2P licencing
Despite the advent of data and extraterritoriality, regulation is still a patchwork of regional fixes. When it comes to the crunch, whose laws should you obey?
Evolution in fintech is challenging the way corporates manage their cashflow. Given their acquisitions Amazon, Alibaba and Tencent are at the pointy end – particularly in Asia.
The People’s Bank of China has announced a cut in the reserve required ratio – a move that is expected to inject $175bn into the economy - but treasurers should still be wary of reading too much into the move
