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
AML / KYC
Tax Justice Network: Measures to Address Complex Ownership
21/02/2022
Countries should ‘name and shame’ companies with highly complex ownership structures and consider forcing ‘too complex to fail’ companies to simplify.
AML / KYC
Suisse Secrets: Data Leak Reveals Criminals Clients at Swiss Bank
21/02/2022
The data unearthed evidence that Credit Suisse accounts were used by clients involved in torture, drug trafficking, money laundering, corruption and other serious crimes.
Market Infrastructure
FSB Updates G20 on 2022 Priorities, Including Work on Crypto-assets
17/02/2022
The FSB has started to examine regulatory and supervisory issues and approaches to address risks stemming from unbacked crypto-assets.
Fintech / Regtech
NFTs Are Not Suitable for Retail Investors, MAS Chairman Warns
17/02/2022
MAS chairman Tharman Shanmugaratnam said NFTs could be regulated only if they are used to represent capital markets products.
Fintech / Regtech
Crypto-related Financial Stability Risks are Increasing: FSB
16/02/2022
Crypto-related financial stability risks could “rapidly escalate”, underscoring the need for “timely and pre-emptive” evaluation of possible policy responses.
Fintech / Regtech
Thai SEC Proposes New Rules on Crypto-related Advertising
15/02/2022
Advertisements related to cryptocurrencies in public areas will be prohibited, but advertising of services “can still be carried out normally”.
AML / KYC
MAS Issues Guidance on Tech Adoption for Remote CDD
14/02/2022
MAS identifies good industry practices used to guard against fraud, impersonation, and document tampering in a non-face-to-face setting.
Securities / Derivatives
RBI Finalises Master Directions for Credit Derivatives Market
14/02/2022
The revised directions are aimed at helping to develop more liquidity in the corporate bond market, especially for the bonds of lower-rated issuers.
AML / KYC
Australia Senate Introduces Tranche 2 Reform Bill, Again
13/02/2022
The bill, if passed, will help fulfill a nearly 16-year-old commitment to bring gatekeeper professions within Australia’s AML regime, and require the establishment of a public UBO register.
AML / KYC
HK Gov Issues Discussion Paper on Proposed VASP Regime
11/02/2022
Licensing will be available to companies incorporated elsewhere as long as they have a registration in Hong Kong.
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