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
New Zealand Consults on Broad Changes to AML/CFT Act
07/10/2021
Changes being considered include the introduction of a new registration regime for all AML/CFT businesses, a licensing regime for VASPs, and direct penalties for senior managers.
Market Infrastructure
Hong Kong Announces Initiatives to Bolster Financial Hub Status
07/10/2021
Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced measures to improve the stock market listing regime and enable RMB-denominated securities in Hong Kong.
Fintech / Regtech
BIS Partners with MAS, BOE, ISDA on Data & Analytics Platform
07/10/2021
Project Ellipse explores the use of ISDA’s Common Domain Model to digitally extract, query and analyse large quantities of data in real-time for supervisory purposes.
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.
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