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
ESG / Sustainability
SGX RegCo Outlines Steps to Tackle Greenwashing
21/07/2022
SGX is developing a digital portal known as ESGenome which will help issuers with disclosures and make ESG data more easily accessible to investors.
Crypto / Digital Assets
MAS to Introduce More Comprehensive Rules for Crypto Sector
19/07/2022
MAS will share its strategy for developing Singapore as a digital asset hub in August. New rules for crypto will be proposed in September or October.
ESG / Sustainability
IMF Outlines Approaches to Climate Risk Analysis in FSAPs
18/07/2022
Climate risk analysis in FSAPs typically entails the development of scenario-based stress tests for assessing bank solvency and liquidity, using bank level data.
Capital / Liquidity
BCBS Treatment of Banks’ Crypto Exposures Still Constraining: ISDA
18/07/2022
ISDA chief executive Scott O’Malia says the new group 2 exposure limit presents a “significant constraint” on the extent to which banks can participate.
Crypto / Digital Assets
Thailand Refines Rules for Crypto Firms, Issues Draft Rules for Banks
15/07/2022
The SEC amended capital requirements and other rules for crypto firms. The BOT issued draft rules for banks dealing in crypto. Two crypto exchanges were penalised.
AML / KYC
GCFFC Offers Recommendations on Improving AML Effectiveness
12/07/2022
PPPs could benefit from the FATF providing a clearer endorsement of their benefits within the global framework, the paper says.
AML / KYC
Hong Kong Publishes ML/TF Risk Assessment Report
12/07/2022
The most prominent ML threats to banks come from fraud, corruption and tax crimes. The main ML threats to the crypto sector relate to fraud and theft.
Market Infrastructure
HK Banks Must ‘Fully’ Participate in New Credit Reference Platform
11/07/2022
The new platform, expected to be launched by year-end, will serve as an interface for lenders and CRAs to share consumer credit information.
AML / KYC
No Specific Customer Type is Automatically Higher Risk: US Agencies
09/07/2022
Banks should use a risk-based approach when managing customer risk, and not decline to provide banking services to entire categories of customers.
AML / KYC
GLEIF Launches vLEI Issuer Qualification Programme
07/07/2022
The vLEI is a digital version of the LEI which can be securely verified online against the source information held in GLEIF’s data repository.
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