Samuel Riding
Samuel is Regulation Asia's former managing editor and currently serves as an editorial advisor. samuel@regulationasia.com
Articles by Samuel Riding
Capital Adequacy
HK Hikes Capital Buffer Due to High Credit-GDP, Property-Rent Gaps
15/01/2018
Central bank chief expresses concern about growing gaps between credit and GDP, property prices and rents.
Structural Regulation
Beware Regulatory Fragmentation in 2018 – Deloitte
11/01/2018
Trend towards more isolated policymaking will challenge the implementation of financial regulations on a worldwide basis.
Trading & Investment
ESMA Publishes List of Derivatives Subject to MiFID II Trading Rules
11/01/2018
Listed securities must be traded on regulated markets or organised trading facilities; no APAC venues yet to be granted equivalency.
Payments & Settlements
Banks Must Ensure Foreigners’ RMB Investment Returns Can Be ‘Freely Remitted’ – PBOC
08/01/2018
PBOC confirms overseas investors can use RMB funds to participate in China’s emissions trading market; send RMB profits, dividends back home.
Operational Risk
Japan Regulator to Overhaul Supervision and Restructure
08/01/2018
FSA’s move towards ‘dynamic supervision’ includes scrapping inspection manuals, restructuring governance, internal structure and HR policy.
Clearing & Post-Trade
HK SFC to Remove Corporate Treasury of non-Financial Firms from OTC Regulation
21/12/2017
Extensive consultation also proposes to expand risk mitigation requirements to ‘all licensed corporations’, rejects idea of regulatory threshold.
Structural Regulation
China to Scrap RMB Trading Waitlist for Foreign Banks
14/12/2017
Move is part of a package reforms including ‘non-discriminatory ownership limit rules’ for overseas banks, but PBOC doesn’t provide timeline.
Structural Regulation
What You Need to Know About MiFID II Product Governance Requirements
07/12/2017
With less than a month to go before the MiFID II comes into effect, Vijay Chander, executive director for Fixed […]
Structural Regulation
Don’t Panic – MiFID II Set for ‘Soft’ Launch
07/12/2017
Experts say regulators likely to accept a ‘best efforts’ approach for at least several weeks after MiFID II official implementation deadline.
AI Risk & Governance
BoJ Expects Large IT Firms to Become Systemically Important
07/12/2017
Haruhiko Kuroda says global IT platform providers could pose systemic risk through holding vast amounts of data, adds to warnings on algo contagion.
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