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Fraud, Scams & Cybercrime
20 Year Old Pleads Guilty in OCBC Phishing Scam Case
20/04/2022
The individual worked with other youths to provide overseas syndicates control of bank accounts that were used to receive and dissipate funds obtained through scams.
Reporting & Disclosures
WFE Publishes Paper on Human Rights Disclosure Practices
19/04/2022
The paper addresses social washing concerns and offers guidance for exchanges on reporting against human-rights related reporting frameworks.
Credit Risk
PBOC, SAFE Step Up Support for Covid-Hit Economy
19/04/2022
Banks are asked to increase lending, delay loan repayments, defer overdue loan reclassification, and support infrastructure projects and property developers.
Structural Regulation
Singapore Tightens Requirements for Family Office Tax Breaks
19/04/2022
The new requirements are expected to slow the market’s growth but over time attract larger and more wealthy families to set up in Singapore.
Climate Risk
SBTi Offers Guidance to FIs on Setting Net Zero Targets
19/04/2022
SBTi’s new paper provides principles, definitions, metrics, and target formulation considerations for FIs to set quantitative net-zero targets.
Credit Risk
Bangladesh Bank Issues Provisioning Policy for ‘Other Assets’
19/04/2022
Banks will have to hold ‘bad debt’ level provisions against funds allocated for certain business expenditures if they sit on the balance sheet as ‘other assets’ for over a year.
Anti-Bribery & Corruption
China to Step Up Corruption Crackdown in Capital Markets
19/04/2022
So far this year, nine financial officials were expelled from the CCP, with some facing other disciplinary punishments including criminal prosecution.
Climate Risk
FSA Issues Guidance to Japanese FIs on Using NGFS Scenarios
19/04/2022
The guidance will help Japanese financial institutions use of the NGFS scenarios to conduct climate-related financial risk analysis, the FSA said.
Structural Regulation
Japan to Remove Quarterly Reporting Requirements
19/04/2022
Legislation will be introduced in 2023 to remove a requirement for listed companies to provide the government with audited quarterly financial statements.
Structural Regulation
China to Unify Domestic Markets to Prevent Unfair Competition
19/04/2022
China will cultivate a unified national ecological and environment market and create unified carbon emissions and water rights trading markets.
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