
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.

Cryptocurrency
Philippine SEC Launches New Regulatory Sandbox for Crypto
15/04/2025
The SEC is inviting firms to apply to participate in testing products and services in a new crypto regulatory sandbox.

Fraud, Scams & Cybercrime
HKMA Directs SVF Licensees to Implement Anti-Scam Measures
15/04/2025
SVF licensees are directed to use the measures set out in a December 2024 circular initially intended for authorised institutions.

Fraud, Scams & Cybercrime
HKMA Unveils New Measures to Bolster E-Banking Security
15/04/2025
Banks must empower customers to adopt bound devices instead of SMS OTPs and deactivate higher risk e-banking functions.

Cryptocurrency
SFC Grants First Approvals Allowing Crypto Staking Services
14/04/2025
HashKey and OSL can expand their product and service offerings to provide staking as a service to clients, including retail clients.

Trading & Investment
Philippine Regulators Urge Energy Firms to Tap Capital Market
14/04/2025
The SEC has simplified its registration requirements to make it easy for power generation and distribution companies to publicly issue securities.

Anti-Money Laundering
HKMA Announces New Measures to Combat Financial Crime
11/04/2025
HKMA, HKPF and HKAB have jointly announced new measures to strengthen the response to fraud and money laundering.

Conduct, Culture & Accountability
ASIC Consults on Plan to Publish Breach and Complaints Data
11/04/2025
ASIC proposes to publish regulated firms’ breach and complaints data in H2 this year to enhance transparency and accountability.co
AI Risk & Governance
HKIMR Publishes Findings on GenAI Adoption Among Hong Kong FIs
10/04/2025
75 percent of surveyed FIs have rolled out or implemented at least one GenAI use case or are currently piloting and designing use cases.

Cybersecurity
Malaysia, Thailand Partner on Cyber Resilience Efforts
10/04/2025
BNM and BOT’s central banks will collaborate on cybersecurity preparedness and strengthen the cyber defences of both nations’ financial industries.

Clearing & Post-Trade
RBA “Lost Confidence” in ASX Months Before December Outage – Report
10/04/2025
The RBA had warned ASX in a September 2024 confidential that it had lost confidence in the exchange’s ability to manage its operations and risks.
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