As policy makers begin to roll back almost a decade of cross-border cooperation in Asia Pacific regulation, corporate treasurers will need a fragmented approach
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.
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.
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.
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?