Manesh Samtani
Manesh manages the news desk and serves as an editor at Regulation Asia. He covers regulatory changes across Asia Pacific that impact banking, capital markets, asset management, and financial services more generally. Manesh is a former trader and investment consultant with a degree in Finance and Banking. manesh@regulationasia.com
Articles by Manesh Samtani
Market Infrastructure
China Moves Ahead With Capital Market Support Measures
28/08/2023
The measures include a lower minimum margin ratio, a stamp duty cut, and curbs on stock sales and new IPOs.
Capital / Liquidity
BNM Issues Draft Policy on Liquidity Risk Management
28/08/2023
The policy requires banks to apply early warning indicators and liquidity stress tests to identify emerging liquidity risks and vulnerabilities.
MAS Enhances Safeguards for Vulnerable Advice Customers
28/08/2023
Financial advisory firms have to identify vulnerable customers, conduct pretransaction checks, and ask a “trusted individual” to be present during the sales and advisory process.
Crypto / Digital Assets
US Authorities Propose New Tax Reporting Rules for Crypto
27/08/2023
Crypto firms, NFT platforms, and wallet providers would have to report sales and exchanges of digital assets to the IRS.
AML / KYC
US Sanctions Tornado Cash Co-founder, Arrests Another
24/08/2023
Russian national Roman Semenov was added to OFAC’s sanctions list. Another co-founder, Roman Storm, was arrested on Wednesday.
Crypto / Digital Assets
BIS Paper Warns of Heightened Risks from Crypto in EMEs
23/08/2023
Certain “risk catalysts” in emerging markets can strengthen the transmission channels through which risks from crypto markets can affect financial stability.
Enforcement
US Court Rules AI-Generated Work Cannot be Copyrighted
22/08/2023
Human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright, a federal judge ruled in a case that dates back to 2019.
Crypto / Digital Assets
NZ Parliamentary Report Warns Against Overregulating Digital Assets
21/08/2023
New Zealand does not need to urgently design and implement an integrated regulatory framework for digital assets at this time, the report says.
Market Infrastructure
China Unveils Package of Measures to Reinvigorate Stock Market
21/08/2023
The measures include reducing transaction fees, encouraging stock buybacks by listed companies, and a possible extension of trading hours.
Market Infrastructure
FSS Korea Targets Internal Controls, Lending Compliance at Banks
20/08/2023
Bank presidents asked to inspect their institutions’ internal control systems, and to do more to contain rising levels of household indebtedness.
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