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
ESG Due Diligence: Setting a High Water Mark
05/10/2021
Refinitiv’s Wendy De Cruz talks to Regulation Asia about new supply chain laws reshaping industries and the challenges FIs face in enhancing due diligence practices.
AML / KYC
Pandora Papers Expose Offshore Wealth of Public Officials
05/10/2021
Some 35 current and former leaders are featured in the Pandora Papers leak, which contains 11.9 million documents from 14 offshore services firms.
Fintech / Regtech
HKMA Seeks Input on Technical Design for Retail CBDC
05/10/2021
The technical architecture proposed in a new whitepaper includes a privacy preservation arrangement that also allows for transaction traceability.
Market Infrastructure
SFC Issues New Guidance on Remote Working Risks
05/10/2021
The SFC describes incidents that occurred due to failures to split teams amid the pandemic, set up phone recording, and promptly isolate a server compromised by ransomware.
ESG / Sustainability
Singapore Established Green Bonds Programme Office
03/10/2021
The new office, under the Ministry of Finance, will help to catalyse sustainable finance and green investments, said minister Lawrence Wong.
Market Infrastructure
BNM Launches New Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform
03/10/2021
FinTIP leverages machine algorithms and human experts to correlate, normalise, enrich, and sanitise contributed data to produce “real-time actionable intelligence”.
AML / KYC
MAS to Deploy Information Sharing Platform for AML/CFT
03/10/2021
The COSMIC platform will be developed and deployed in phases. The initial participants are DBS, OCBC, UOB, StanChart, Citibank and HSBC.
Market Infrastructure
Hong Kong Capital Market to Increase Use of RMB
02/10/2021
HKMA chief Eddie Yue speaks of expanding the use of the RMB in Hong Kong stock market trading and a multi-year programme to enhance the CMU.
AML / KYC
NZ FMA Toughens Approach to AML Non-Compliance
30/09/2021
The FMA’s James Greig noted a lower tolerance for AML/CFT non-compliance, given the regime has been in place for eight years.
Market Infrastructure
ISDA to Change BSBY, Ameribor Fallback Language
30/09/2021
The FCA said the current fallback language for credit sensitive rates puts market participants at risk of breaching their obligations under BMR.
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