Manesh Samtani
Manesh Samtani is the Editor at Regulation Asia, where he leads the regional news desk from Hong Kong, directing coverage of critical regulatory developments impacting financial services across APAC. Manesh specialises in analysing how new rules and technologies are reshaping banking, capital markets, and the fight against financial crime, providing finance professionals, compliance leaders, and policymakers with the intelligence they need to navigate risk and understand the impact of regulatory change in the region. manesh@regulationasia.com
Articles by Manesh Samtani
Sanctions
FATF Must Blacklist Russia Over DPRK Partnership, Ukraine Says
24/06/2024
RUSI’s Tom Keatinge says the FATF could damage its legitimacy if it doesn’t have a response to the strengthening of ties between Russia and North Korea.
Securities / Derivatives
HKEX Enhances Clearing Arrangement for Stock, Options Trades
24/06/2024
Exchange participants that are not also clearing participants can now appoint more than one general clearing participant for stock and options trades.
Securities / Derivatives
Korea Issues Best Execution Guidelines for Securities Firms
23/06/2024
The guidelines are intended to help securities firms understand how they should allocate customer orders once the new ATS market is launched in March 2025.
AML / KYC
Japan Announces New Measures to Combat Fraud and Scams
21/06/2024
The measures include obligations for social media companies, internet service providers, telecoms companies and financial institutions.
AML / KYC
Singapore Publishes Money Laundering Risk Assessment
21/06/2024
Banking is Singapore’s highest risk sector. A key ML threat is cyber-enabled fraud, typically orchestrated by criminal syndicates located overseas.
Market Infrastructure
KRX Forms Task Force to Improve Preparedness for Market Outage
20/06/2024
The task force was formed in response to the technical issue that occurred earlier this month at the NYSE, which caused stock prices to drop unexpectedly.
Crypto / Digital Assets
EBA Delivers Final Batch of MiCA Technical Standards
19/06/2024
14 technical standards and 3 guidelines have been finalised and published, completing EBA’s delivery of technical standards under the MiCA regime.
ESG / Sustainability
Japan FSA Working to Enhance Transparency of Shareholders
19/06/2024
Custodians typically exercise voting rights based on instructions from beneficial shareholders, but it is often difficult to identify who those shareholders are.
AML / KYC
HSBC Breached AML Obligations in Switzerland: FINMA
19/06/2024
HSBC’s Swiss private banking unit is prohibited from onboarding new PEPs until an auditor has confirmed its compliance with FINMA’s orders.
Enforcement
CFTC Settles Charges Against Trafigura for $55m
18/06/2024
This is the first time the CFTC has taken action against a firm for impeding whistleblower communications, a move being criticised by two commissioners.
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