Posts By Peter Guy, Regulation Asia
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583Capital RegulationThe Greek Tragedy of Financial Regulation
The latest Eurozone bailout has effectively sentenced the country to a generation of vassalage, creating a financial serfdom. Weak growth and regulatory shortcomings will only invite the next crisis.
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1.1KFintech / RegtechHK Virtual Bank Licence Offers Nothing New for Local Market
The HKMA and its new regulations fail to recognise that virtual banking has long existed. Redundant and irrelevant rules only hold back fintech development in Hong Kong.
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509Capital RegulationPush for Bank Capital Easing May Signal Top of Market Cycle
Financial regulation is beginning to mirror the boom and bust cycles of the market as participants lobby regulators to loosen capital requirements – this at what appears to be the peak of the post-crisis economic growth cycle.
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539Capital RegulationVolcker Rule – Road to Reform or Ruin?
Proposed changes by the Trump Administration to the Volcker Rule are already controversial. Linking cause and effect to risk management have only resulted in an excessively complex regulation that is proving difficult to reform in a “too big to fail”...
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580Australia & NZGaming the System is Part of Being a Great Banker
Criminal charges brought by Australian regulators against bankers in the ANZ cartel case represent a challenge against practices traditionally considered the norm in global underwriting syndicate culture.
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571Capital RegulationEurozone’s Weakest Links Place Bank Regulation Under Threat
Every banking system at the bottom of the financial pool crosses paths eventually, and in desperate times only a tangled morass of regulations versus sovereign imperatives awaits.
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643Capital RegulationFRTB – Ending or Evolving Trading Culture
FRTB will force banks to change their operating models, bringing them out of product and trading desk silos. Bank trading culture and the trading desk concept may need to evolve to accommodate a wider picture of risk taking.
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562InternationalGrowing Liquidity Requirements, a Regulatory Hazard for Asset Managers
Asset managers resist bank-like capital and liquidity regulations being contemplated by regulators. But new requirements appear unavoidable given recent regulatory trends.
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739Capital Regulation
When FRTB Meets the Real World
The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book was supposed to redefine how banks collectively manage risks. Yet, risk can still be a ‘ghost in the machine’.
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586AML / KYCHong Kong Money Laundering – The River Runs Through It
While Hong Kong struggles to reduce and contain money laundering activities at existing financial institutions, the role of cryptocurrencies in undermining compliance and enforcement capabilities is overlooked.
