The amendments target terrorist and proliferation financing and are aimed at helping the Philippines secure its removal from the FATF grey list.
The National Housing Infrastructure Facility will be used to attract investment from super funds and institutional investors into the social and affordable housing sector.
The revisions also simplify application procedures and allow securities firms to provide financial planning services to clients through trusts.
The Council has retained the 1 January 2025 start date for implementation proposed by the European Commission a year ago.
HashKey has full approval to operate a crypto trading platform in Hong Kong and in-principle approval to offer fund management services in Singapore.
The platform will enable debtors to check their own credit records and held lenders decide whether to grant credit to customers.
The August designation did not connect Tornado Cash to North Korea’s nuclear programme.
CEO Bill Winters said Standard Chartered Bank will consider offering crypto trading services to Hong Kong retail customers.
A UN expert group says companies claiming to be on a path to net zero cannot also be building or investing in new fossil fuel assets.
Proposed rules governing the intraday liquidity facility are being circulated among banks and non-banks.