Capital / Liquidity

Regulation and China’s Growing Debt Mountain

11/12/2017

The recent collapse of OBOR deals shows how inadequate financial regulation is starting to impact international transactions.

Market Infrastructure

MiFID II – Banks Struggle to Survive the Transparency

05/12/2017

Liquidity requires symmetric information, which is easiest to achieve when everyone is ignorant.

Securities / Derivatives

Stock Exchange Reality: Profit Versus Regulations

27/11/2017

HKEX and SFC recently decided to admit dual class share listings, but reject a start-up board. Their decisions will change key regulatory principles.

Fintech / Regtech

The Final Frontier of Financial Regulation

20/11/2017

FSB’s recent paper on artificial intelligence and machine learning reveal how far we are from managing its unknown effects on financial markets.

AML / KYC

No Privacy in Paradise

13/11/2017

Look beyond the lurid financial gossip and the Paradise Papers show how technology is opening the banking system to scrutiny.

Capital / Liquidity

When Deposit Insurance Isn’t Insurance

06/11/2017

Calls for EU wide deposit insurance are supposed to herald banking union. But regulatory enforcement, national policies and financial technology stand in the way.

Securities / Derivatives

Hong Kong Dual-class Listings Not Quite a Brave New World

30/10/2017

Abandoning plans for third board and allowing main board dual-class shares do nothing to support start-ups or attempts to reinvent HK economy.

Fintech / Regtech

Bitcoin is Dead. Long Live Cryptocurrency

23/10/2017

Commercial and central banks are urgently trying to vault ahead of bitcoin, fearful the technology could overtake them.

Fintech / Regtech

The Growing Human Limitations of Financial AI

16/10/2017

Artificial intelligence might not harm humans, but humans can go to jail for the actions of bad robots.