The draft law will define "high-risk AI", business operator responsibilities, the composition of AI committees, and ethical principles.
The BOJ also abolished its yield curve control policy, which it has used since 2016 to cap the yields of 10-year JGBs.
Bursa Malaysia has become the first exchange outside of China licensed to incorporate Dalian Commodity Exchange’s commodity futures settlement prices.
The supervision work plan includes measures to support regulatory compliance by VASPs ahead of the Virtual Asset Users Protection Act coming into force on 19 July 2024.
S. Korea Preparing Draft Artificial Intelligence Law: Official
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March 19, 2024China’s Didi Required to Face Investor Lawsuit Over 2021 IPO
March 19, 2024US DOJ Proposes 50 Year Prison Term for FTX Founder
March 19, 2024FSB Updates Guidance on Operational Continuity in Resolution
March 19, 2024US SEC Fines Two Investment Advisers for AI Washing
March 19, 2024MAS to Announce Revised Fair Dealing Guidelines for FIs
March 19, 2024RBI Tightens Scrutiny of High-Risk Lending Models
March 19, 2024FSS Korea Issues 2024 Virtual Asset Supervision Workplan
March 19, 2024Use of AI for AML Could Lower Effectiveness: Report
Bradley Maclean, Regulation Asia March 14, 2024Singapore’s COSMIC Initiative Will Prioritise Consumer Safeguards
Nithya Subramanian, Regulation Asia March 12, 2024Hong Kong: More Clarity Needed on Proposed OTC Crypto Regime
Nithya Subramanian, Regulation Asia March 7, 2024A new IIF-McKinsey report offers a roadmap for mitigating cyber risks amidst the rapid adoption of emerging technologies in finance.
APRA explains why the difference in risk-weights for housing lending between IRB and standardised banks is appropriate.
The paper proposes a three-pronged regulatory approach to help guide the prudential oversight of NBFI retail lenders and mitigate risks.
Besides allowing the investor lawsuit to proceed against Didi, the US court also refused to dismiss claims against banks that helped the company go public.
US prosecutors have proposed a sentence of 40 to 50 years for FTX founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, and a USD 11 billion fine and forfeiture.
"Investment advisers should not mislead the public by saying they are using an AI model when they are not," said the SEC's Gary Gensler.
The FSC has decided to appeal a High Court ruling that nullified a reprimand warning imposed on Hana Financial Group CEO Ham Young-joo in 2020.
The policies tighten the rules for IPO applicants, increase oversight of listed companies, and impose obligations on brokers and investment banks.
The latest probe delves into whether an Adani entity was involved in making payments to Indian officials for favourable outcomes on an energy project.
The draft law will define "high-risk AI", business operator responsibilities, the composition of AI committees, and ethical principles.
A supplementary note was added to address today's dependencies on third-party providers for critical shared services, and the digitalisation of such services.
"Investment advisers should not mislead the public by saying they are using an AI model when they are not," said the SEC's Gary Gensler.
China UnionPay will spend CNY 3 billion on acceptance terminal upgrades, signage placement and publicity in key cities.
The whitepaper details Project Savannah's goals and strategy for empowering MSMEs in sustainability reporting through three key pillars.
Phase 2 will focus on programmability, tokenisation and atomic settlement, leveraging the ‘Project Ensemble’ sandbox.
Prateebha Narayan is an Executive Director and Head of Operations Control and Transaction Reporting for Asia Ex-Japan with Nomura Singapore Limited. She was part of Lehman Brothers prior to 2008 and brings a total experience of about 25 years with the Financial Services industry.
Priya Kundamal is General Manager and Head of DTCC Data Repository, Singapore Pte. Ltd, the Singapore-based subsidiary of DTCC’s Global Trade Repository (GTR) service that provides OTC derivatives trade reporting to ASIC and MAS. In this capacity, Priya works closely with regulators, market participant firms and industry associations across the Asia Pacific region and the globe on the adoption of automated solutions that deliver upon the G20’s OTC Derivative Market Reforms. Priya has more than 20+ years of industry experience and has a strong understanding of the regulatory frameworks behind reporting requirements across jurisdictions, as well as the ever-evolving technology in this space.
Alex Orgaz-Barnier is a Senior Manager in the Market Infrastructure Team at ASIC (Australian Securities & Investments Commission). He leads the unit responsible for overseeing the Australian futures markets and OTC trading and reporting infrastructure, including licensing and supervising Trade Repositories and administering the Australian Derivatives Transaction Reporting Rules.
Manesh manages the news desk and serves as an editor at Regulation Asia. He covers regulatory changes across Asia Pacific that impact banking, capital markets, asset management, and financial services more generally. Manesh is a former trader and investment consultant with a degree in Finance and Banking.
Julia is a partner with PwC Singapore’s Digital Regulatory Risk & Compliance practice. She is a risk and transformation specialist advising banks, wealth managers, capital markets intermediaries and non-FIs on digital transformation strategy and execution, risk & regulations, controls and governance.
With over 20 years of experience, she has led core banking, compliance, operational risk, finance transformation programmes, corporate governance, ERM and internal audit reviews. Clients value her partnership to connect the dots and co-create pragmatic, best-fit solutions for them.
Prior to her current role, she has assumed various leadership roles at firm-level as private banking industry lead, banking governance, risk and compliance and digital transformation services leader.
Outside of client work, Julia is active in giving back with board directorship and mentoring. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees for ISEAS (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies), the board of Building Construction Authority and committee of the Governance and Audit Committee of Singapore Heart Foundation. She is a mentor with Young Women Leadership Connection and Mentorshub.
Ashish is a banking professional with 23 years of techno-functional experience in Transformation, Digitization, Strategy, Data, Analytics, Business Process Re-engineering, Change and Risk Management across Wealth Management, Private Banking and Consumer Banking.
Bradley is Co-Founder at Regulation Asia, the leading regulatory news intelligence service for the financial sector in APAC. Bradley advises governmental and start-up projects, including several regulated digital assets, climate markets and payments entities.
Previously Bradley oversaw Strategy with SunGard Financial Systems (now FIS), heading up strategic, business planning and product development across Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Prior to this, he was a management consultant focused on private equity and alternative assets. He has also been involved in several high-profile research programmes, including assisting the US Treasury Department in accessing the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) instituted following the 2008 global financial crisis.
Bradley is a senior Financial Regulation and Risk Management research fellow with The Guangzhou-Nottingham Advanced Institute of Finance and the Guangzhou University of Finance’s Institute of Financial Employment.
Focused on the broader economic impact of financial regulation, he holds Master’s degrees in Finance, Quantitative Research and Law from New York University’s Stern School of Business, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the University of Melbourne. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the Swiss Business School in Zurich.
Parsa Khoshdel is an accomplished management consulting professional with more than 11 years of experience in private banking and financial services consulting.
He has extensive experience in driving large scale regulatory business transformation programs in collaboration with leading global financial institutions.
Parsa holds a Masters degree in Financial Engineering from National University of Singapore and is currently leading the PBWM Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management division for Synpulse in APAC.
Jane is a highly motivated and accomplished professional with over a decade of experience in the financial services sector. Beginning her career as a practicing lawyer in Malaysia, she later transitioned to the financial services industry where she assumed responsibility for overseeing regulatory compliance and risk management.
Prior to her current role at Charles Monat Associates, Jane served as the Head of Compliance at both AAM Advisory and St. James’s Place Singapore, where she established robust policies and standards that were successfully integrated throughout the organisations.
Throughout her career, Jane has worked closely with advisors and business stakeholders to ensure that clients can easily conduct business with the firm while maintaining compliance with all regulatory requirements.
Osvaldo is a Suitability & Wealth Management SME for NICE Actimize. Prior to joining NICE, he was a Financial Consultant with Fidelity Investments, where he helped retail and HNWI clients define their financial goals and provided them with financial planning concepts and solutions to meet those goals.
Before Fidelity, Osvaldo served around ten years at TIAA, working on the institutional side of the business for four years and the Wealth Management space for around six years. During his tenure at TIAA, he was a part of projects and pilots catering specifically to DOL and Suitability changes, including regulatory requirements and user interface.
Before joining TIAA, he was a Financial Advisor with Wells Fargo Advisors for two years, responsible for the Wealth Management offering out of 5 offices. Osvaldo began his career as a Financial Advisor at Bank of America / Merrill Lynch for around seven years, where he was responsible for running a Wealth Management practice across six offices.
Osvaldo has a bachelor’s degree in Finance from New Jersey City University. He also holds a Series 7, 63, 65, and Life & Health Producers licenses from the state of New Jersey.
Mr Ken Nagatsuka is the Executive Director and Head of Payments Department at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The department is responsible for the authorisation, ongoing supervision and policy-making in relation to payment systems and payment service providers, such as e-money issuers, remittance providers and digital payment token (more commonly known as cryptocurrency) service providers under the Payments Services Act.
Prior to this, Mr Nagatsuka has worked in the field of capital markets regulation for over 15 years, and was previously Head of the Capital Markets Policy Division responsible for policy formulation and reviewing legislation in relation to capital markets and market infrastructures. In his role, he represented MAS on various international committees under the FSB, CPMI and IOSCO, on subjects such as OTC derivatives reforms and financial market infrastructures. Prior to that, he also served in various roles in exchange and clearing house supervisory functions.
Mr Nagatsuka holds both a Bachelor of Business Management and Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Singapore Management University.
Ari Redbord is Head of Legal and Government Affairs at TRM Labs, a blockchain analytics company. Prior to joining TRM Labs, he served as a Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary and the Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the United States Department of Treasury. In this capacity, he worked with teams from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and other Treasury and interagency components on issues related to sanctions, the Bank Secrecy Act, cryptocurrency, and anti-money laundering strategies.
Previously, Mr. Redbord served as a Senior Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, where he investigated and prosecuted cases related to cryptocurrency, terrorist financing, sanctions evasion, export control, child exploitation and human trafficking. He has received numerous awards from FinCEN, the FBI, and the United States Attorney’s Office, including the Attorney General’s Award for leading an interagency task force dedicated to prosecuting those who abuse and exploit children.