Posts By Peter Guy, Regulation Asia
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859FRTB – Ending or Evolving Trading Culture
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia May 28, 2018FRTB 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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754Growing Liquidity Requirements, a Regulatory Hazard for Asset Managers
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia May 21, 2018Asset 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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When FRTB Meets the Real World
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia May 14, 2018The 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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772Hong Kong Money Laundering – The River Runs Through It
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia May 7, 2018While 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.
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Postcards from the Crypto Frontier
Like a wild west cowboy town, Asian crypto-trading has overwhelmed regulatory efforts to control and discourage its growth. But regulatory confusion and misunderstanding have created opportunities and pitfalls.
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949Ant Financial – A Disruptive Force for Regulators
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia April 23, 2018Blurring the regulatory distinction between banking and financial technology creates both opportunity and pitfalls.
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881Outsourcing Compliance and Cybersecurity is Increasingly Risky Business
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia April 16, 2018Recent FCA case highlights cost of mismanaged outsourcing. Potential IT problems are brewing for private equity GPs too as big deals systemically overlap banking system.
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770MiFID II Could Kill Quality Investment Research
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia April 9, 2018If almost all communications between sales-traders and clients is classified as “research”, severe distortions will hit the economics of quality investment insights.
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Decline of the House of Basel
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia March 26, 2018The Basel regime has shown itself to be incomplete and not universally applicable. With the Trump administration seeking to allow a return to proprietary trading, profound implications for global banks’ risk management are only just beginning to surface.
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876China’s Bold Regulatory Reorganisation
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia March 19, 2018Super regulator’s major obstacle will be resisting the cycles of international financial history while meeting the challenges of a big, fast-growing economy.
