This year China saw some of the first defaults by local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) and next year, Moody's research indicates local governments will use them less. However, will there always be a place for ...
Regulators appear set to crank up AML/CTF and sanctions-related work and now have their eye on individuals too. But with the rise of China, regulators will have their work cut out for them.
Over 50 cryptocurrencies pegged to stable assets will soon be in play in the crypto world. It may be early yet but their rise in popularity is a development worth paying attention to.
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.
European banks are still mired in problems of how to offer competitive notional pools to clients. New regulation is set to change this, but not until 2020.
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