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
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.
Crypto / Digital Assets
Crypto Industry Seeks Public Sector Support on Sanctions Issues
06/07/2022
More than 15 million crypto addresses have been linked to criminal activity with a nexus in Russia, a new GDF report says.
AML / KYC
Puerto Rico Forces Closure of Bank Involved in Global Tax Probe
06/07/2022
Peter Schiff’s Euro Pacific Bank was forced to close over capital shortfall and regulatory violations. The bank has been at the centre of a global tax evasion probe.
Enforcement
Former Archegos Employee Sues Firm Over Deferred Bonuses
06/07/2022
Archegos employees were “coerced” to invest their bonus money into the firm through a deferred compensation plan, which evaporated when the company collapsed last March.
ESG / Sustainability
HKEX Announces New Collaboration to Develop Carbon Market
06/07/2022
HSBC, Standard Chartered, BNP Paribas, ANZ, ICBC, Bank of China and others will sit on a new council to help develop a Hong Kong-based international carbon market.
Crypto / Digital Assets
Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital Files for Bankruptcy
05/07/2022
The bankruptcy filing came three days after Three Arrows entered into liquidation in the British Virgin Islands.
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