Sanday Chongo Kabange

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    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.

    Articles by Sanday Chongo Kabange

    Securities / Derivatives

    Philippine SEC Proposes Draft Rules For Umbrella Funds

    21/02/2022

    Investment companies will be allowed to operate umbrella funds as long as they create at least two sub-funds, which segregated assets and liabilities.

    APRA Proposes to ‘Sharply’ Increase Superannuation Transparency

    21/02/2022

    APRA plans to start publishing new aggregate industry, fund-level and product-level statistics on superannuation from June.

    Fintech / Regtech

    Korea FSS Includes NFT, Metaverse Monitoring in Annual Work Plan

    20/02/2022

    The FSS said it will strengthen its supervision of “new trading assets such as NFTs” and “prepare countermeasures” if necessary to protect consumers against damage.

    Fintech / Regtech

    NYSE Seeks Trademark Licences for Digital Marketplace

    18/02/2022

    A filing with the US Patent and Trademark Office suggests the NYSE may be planning to launch an NFT marketplace as well as its own cryptocurrency.

    AML / KYC

    Bangladesh Revises Rules on Mobile Financial Services

    17/02/2022

    The revised regulations allow financial institutions other than banks, as well as government entities, to provide mobile financial services.

    Securities / Derivatives

    HK Government Set to Issue Inaugural Retail Green Bond

    17/02/2022

    Hong Kong financial secretary Paul Chan said the issuance allows residents to “directly contribute to greening Hong Kong and share the fruit of the sustainable development”.

    Securities / Derivatives

    Splitting Chairman, MD, CEO Roles No Longer Mandatory: SEBI

    17/02/2022

    Only 54 percent of the listed companies in scope had complied with the rule as of end-2021, so it will instead become voluntary.

    Fintech / Regtech

    Applications Open for ‘Data Specialising Institutions’ Designation: FSS

    16/02/2022

    Data specialising institutions are allowed to converge anonymised and pseudonymised data originating from different businesses for analytics purposes.

    Fintech / Regtech

    IMF Paper Offers Insights from Six CBDC Pioneer Projects

    15/02/2022

    A new IMF paper offers lessons on CBDCs drawn from ongoing projects in China, the Bahamas, Sweden, Uruguay, Canada and the ECCU.

    AML / KYC

    MAS Tables Bill to Obtain Enhanced Regulatory Powers

    15/02/2022

    The Financial Services and Markets Bill will give MAS enhanced regulatory powers to address misconduct, crypto asset and technology risks.

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