
Sanday Chongo Kabange is an experienced multimedia journalist and a contributor to Regulation Asia. He focuses on compliance, regulatory and legal issues for financial services.

Credit Risk
ASIC Publishes New Capital Markets Roadmap, Seeks New Powers
05/11/2025
ASIC's new capital markets roadmap follows surveillance that found significant failings in the AUD 200 billion private credit sector.

Conduct, Culture & Accountability
ASX Appoints Ex-RBA Governor to Lead New Governance Body
05/11/2025
The move follows recent criticism from the RBA and an investigation by ASIC into the exchange operator's governance and risk management.

CBDCs
Hong Kong and Brazil Pilot CBDC Trade Settlement with Chainlink
05/11/2025
The experiment, part of Brazil's Drex programme, connected the Drex and Ensemble platforms to test real-time, cross-border payments.

AI Risk & Governance
Hong Kong IA Details Framework for Federated Learning in Insurance
05/11/2025
The insurance body's new whitepaper outlines a framework for using the AI technique to enable privacy-preserving data collaboration and manage associated risks.

Clearing & Post-Trade
HKEX to Mandate API Migration, Decommission Participant Gateway by 2027
04/11/2025
The move is part of a broader push to modernise Hong Kong's post-trade infrastructure and promote greater automation for participants.

Structural Regulation
China NFRA Drafts New Rules for Asset Management Trusts
04/11/2025
The proposed measures aim to curb risks by standardising products, banning principal guarantees, and setting new investor and concentration limits.

Structural Regulation
IOSCO Consults on Overhaul of Disclosure Rules, Flags Valuation Weaknesses
04/11/2025
IOSCO is seeking feedback on a new issuer disclosure framework and has highlighted persistent weaknesses in financial valuations.

Cryptocurrency
SFC Opens Crypto Market to Global Liquidity, Expands Product Rules
04/11/2025
The SFC is permitting shared order books with overseas affiliates and easing token listing rules under new investor protection safeguards.

AI Risk & Governance
HKMA Unveils 'Fintech 2030' Strategy to Boost AI, Tokenisation
04/11/2025
The new 'DART' strategy includes over 40 initiatives focused on data, AI, resilience and tokenisation to bolster Hong Kong's fintech hub status.

Fraud, Scams & Cybercrime
Hong Kong Bolsters Anti-Fraud Tech to Combat Online Investment Scams
03/11/2025
Regulators and police are deploying new data sharing rules, an AI-powered app, and telecom blocks to combat surging online financial fraud.
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