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
Structural Regulation
Global Tax Reforms Finalised, Implementation Set for 2023
10/10/2021
Six holdouts from July including Ireland have now joined the global agreement to introduce a 15 percent minimum corporate tax rate globally.
Anti-Money Laundering
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.
Trading & Investment
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.
AI Risk & Governance
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.
Reporting & Disclosures
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.
Anti-Money Laundering
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.
CBDCs
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.
Operational Risk
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.
Sustainable Finance
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.
Cybersecurity
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”.
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