Operational Risk

SGX Creates Working Group after Outage

06/09/2016

Group will seek to increase resilience of the Singapore market.

Conduct, Culture & Accountability

ANZ to Refund $22mn in Fees, Interest

06/09/2016

Bank charged fees on payments between accounts held by the same customer.

Anti-Money Laundering

RBI Asked to Establish Information-sharing Mechanism

06/09/2016

Special Investigation Team on ‘black money’ asks central bank to share information with law enforcement.

Structural Regulation

Thailand Consults on Securities, Derivative License Fees

06/09/2016

Revised proposals charges for business operators follow first round of public comment.

Trading & Investment

Philippines to Have Repo Market by End-2016, Early 2017

06/09/2016

Central bank governor says programme will open the door to allowing short selling.

Trading & Investment

Taiwan to Ease Investment Restrictions

05/09/2016

Chinese nationals can purchase fund products without using a custodial bank.

Structural Regulation

PBOC Said to Take on Bond Market Regulation

05/09/2016

PBOC-CSRC proposal could mark start of cross-functional ‘super regulator’.

Structural Regulation

Pakistan Equalises Sukuk Tax Treatment

05/09/2016

Exemptions for sukuk expected to boost Islamic finance sector

KYC & CDD

SEBI Eyes KYC System Reform

05/09/2016

Market intermediaries are having difficulties with centralised system.