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
ESG / Sustainability
Chinese Exchanges Issue Guides on Preparing Sustainability Reports
09/11/2024
The guides provide a “toolbox” to help listed companies improve their sustainable development governance frameworks, workflows and related disclosures.
AML / KYC
Singapore Publishes Proliferation Financing NRA and CPF Strategy
07/11/2024
The document describes the PF risks Singapore faces, as well as its regulatory framework, risk mitigation measures, and national strategy to combat PF risks.
Market Infrastructure
GBA Initiative on Cross-border Data Transfers Extended and Enhanced
07/11/2024
The framework, launched at the end of last year, initially only applied to the banking, credit referencing and healthcare sectors. All sectors can now participate.
AML / KYC
MAS Announces Key Decisions on New AML Framework for SFOs
07/11/2024
MAS has extended the timelines for single family offices to submit initial notifications and annual reports. The transitional period will be 1 year instead of 6 months.
Crypto / Digital Assets
FCA, MAS to Explore Regulatory Considerations for Tokenisation
07/11/2024
The FCA and ICMA welcomed reports released by MAS this week offering tokenisation frameworks for funds and fixed income securities.
Fintech / Regtech
FCA Issues Guidance on Preparing for CrowdStrike-Style Outages
05/11/2024
The FCA offers guidance on compliance with its operational resilience rules by 31 March 2025, drawing lessons from the response to CrowdStrike’s July outage.
Securities / Derivatives
Tokyo Stock Exchange Goes Live With Trading System Upgrade
05/11/2024
The changes allow bulk order cancellation, introduce a closing auction session, and extend the TSE’s trading hours by 30 minutes.
AML / KYC
China: NPC Standing Committee Reviewing Updates to AML Law
04/11/2024
The revisions were first proposed in 2021 and have undergone two stages of review. This is expected to be the final stage of review.
AML / KYC
MAS Publishes Findings from Recent AML Inspections at FIs
03/11/2024
The new information paper addresses customers with multiple nationalities, source of wealth establishment, and post-STR risk mitigation measures, among other areas.
Securities / Derivatives
SFC, CSRC Announce First Batch of Brokers Eligible for WMC Scheme
02/11/2024
The list includes the likes of CICC, China Merchants Securities, CITIC Securities, Guotai Junan Securities, and Huatai Securities.
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