
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.

Stablecoins
Hong Kong Working “Full Steam Ahead” on Stablecoin Legislation
30/09/2024
The FSTB and the HKMA will “strive” to introduce draft legislation for Hong Kong’s stablecoin regulatory regime by end 2024.

Operational Risk
HKMA Issues New Guidance Responding to Crowdstrike Outage
30/09/2024
The HKMA offers guidance to authorised institutions on enhancing their operational resilience against the failure of third-party IT solutions.

Fraud, Scams & Cybercrime
Hong Kong Court Jails Former China Taiping Agent for Fraud
30/09/2024
The former insurance agent received over HK$650,000 in remuneration for insurance policy applications that turned out to be falsified.

Reporting & Disclosures
HK to Advance Paperless Corporate Communications Regime
28/09/2024
Listed and non-listed companies will be allowed to rely on implied consent for disseminating corporate communications via websites.

Conduct, Culture & Accountability
Australia Consults on Further Revisions to Tax Agents Code of Conduct
26/09/2024
The revisions aim to address industry concerns about obligations to correct false or misleading statements and disclosures that must be made to clients.

Market Abuse
ASIC Fines Macquarie for ‘Serious’ Gatekeeper Failure
26/09/2024
Macquarie was fined for failing to act promptly and appropriately to prevent manipulation in the electricity futures market.

Structural Regulation
Hong Kong FSDC, Beijing Financial Bureau Sign Collaboration Pact
26/09/2024
The pact seeks to nurture a conducive environment for growth and innovation for the Hong Kong and Beijing financial sectors.

Supervision & Enforcement
APRA Releases New Performance Metrics for Super Funds
26/09/2024
APRA seeks to improve member outcomes by bringing together performance metrics of the performance test and superannuation heatmaps.

Tokenisation
Digital Asset, DTCC Complete Pilot Test on Tokenised US Treasuries
26/09/2024
Digital Asset, DTCC and other industry project participants executed 100 transactions using tokenised US Treasuries as collateral.

Reporting & Disclosures
Australian Court Orders Vanguard to Pay Record Greenwashing Fine
25/09/2024
The court ordered Vanguard to pay A$12.9mn for making false or misleading representations about its ESG exclusionary screens.
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