
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.

Trading & Investment
Regulators Announce More Swap Connect Enhancements
16/05/2025
The tenor of IRS contracts will be extended to 30 years and the product scope of Swap Connect will be expanded.

Structural Regulation
Hong Kong Passes Company Re-domiciliation Legislation
16/05/2025
The new regime provides an easier process for non-Hong Kong-incorporated companies to re-domicile to the city.

Anti-Money Laundering
HKMA to Help Banks Deploy AI for Transaction Monitoring
16/05/2025
HKMA has received submissions from banks describing their progress to incorporate AI in their transaction monitoring systems.

Structural Regulation
HK SFC, Abu Dhabi FSRA Enhance Cross-Border Investment Supervision
15/05/2025
The SFC and Abu Dhabi’s FSRA will cooperate on supervision of investment managers of collective investment schemes based in either market.

Structural Regulation
HK SFC Agrees Funds Recognition Framework With Ireland
15/05/2025
The agreement allows the distribution of eligible HK and Irish public funds in each other’s markets via the new FASTrack process.

Supervision & Enforcement
Malaysia SC Signs Enhanced IOSCO Framework on Multilateral Cooperation
15/05/2025
The SC signed IOSCO’s EMMoU, the global benchmark for international cooperation between securities and derivatives market regulators.

Anti-Money Laundering
AUSTRAC Orders AML/CTF Audit of Mercedes Benz Financial Services
15/05/2025
Almost 90 percent of non-bank lenders and financiers did not report a single suspicious matter to AUSTRAC in 2024.

Trading & Investment
ASIC Sues Macquarie Securities Over Short Sales Reporting
14/05/2025
ASIC has sued Macquarie Securities for, what it claims is, repeated and systemic misleading conduct relating to the failure to report the volume of short sales.

Structural Regulation
HK and Ontario Deepen Cross-Border Investment Management Supervision
14/05/2025
The SFC and OSC will collaborate on the supervision of CIS investment managers operating in Hong Kong and Canada.

Conduct, Culture & Accountability
AFCA Updates Guidance for Handling Add-on Insurance Disputes
13/05/2025
Financial firms have until 19 May to comply with the updated guidance, which focuses on complaints relating to add-on insurance.
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