
Sanday Chongo Kabange is an experienced multimedia journalist and a contributor to Regulation Asia. He focuses on compliance, regulatory and legal issues for financial services.

Clearing & Post-Trade
Hong Kong, Macao to Establish Bond Market Infrastructure Link
17/09/2024
Investors in Hong Kong and Macao will be able to clear, settle and hold bonds in each other’s markets using their existing home market infrastructure.

Sustainable Finance
HKMA, DFSA to Deepen Collaboration on Sustainable Finance
17/09/2024
The HKMA and DFSA signed an MoU to deepen cross-border dialogue, information exchange and joint research on sustainable finance.

Fraud, Scams & Cybercrime
Australia Proposes Bill to Establish Scams Prevention Framework
16/09/2024
The framework creates obligations for banks, telcos and tech giants to prevent, detect, report, disrupt, and respond to scams.

Market Abuse
HKEX Offers New Guidance on Preventing Self-Matched Trades
12/09/2024
The guidance aims to help firms mitigate the risk of self-trades by different trading units that might be susceptible to inappropriate trading behaviour.

Conduct, Culture & Accountability
ASIC Directs Product Issuers to Improve DDO Compliance
11/09/2024
ASIC’s Alan Kirkland called on issuers to ensure that their product design and distribution practices are “up to scratch”.

Structural Regulation
ACCC Updates Guidelines on Interim Authorisation
11/09/2024
The updated guidelines seek to clarify expectations around how the ACCC makes decisions on granting interim authorisation.

Anti-Money Laundering
Australia Introduces AML/CTF Reform Bill to Parliament
11/09/2024
The amendment bill will bring tranche 2 entities into scope and modernise the regulation of virtual assets and payments tech.

Sustainable Finance
Australia Releases Interim Report on Taxonomy Development
11/09/2024
The report sets out the progress made towards the development of Australia’s sustainable finance taxonomy.

AI Risk & Governance
New Zealand FIs Taking ‘Cautious Approach’ to AI Adoption – FMA
10/09/2024
The FMA conducted research to better understand how regulated entities are exploring the adoption of AI, to help shape an appropriate regulatory framework.

Anti-Bribery & Corruption
Australia’s New Anti-Foreign Bribery Law Comes into Force
10/09/2024
Under the new law, companies will be held directly liable for failure to prevent foreign bribery by employees, external contractors, agents and subsidiaries.
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