Enforcement

    Enforcement

    CBIRC Fines Citic Bank for Failure to Protect Customer Data

    By Editors | 25/03/2021

    The penalty is likely related to a complaint by a popular comedian that Citic Bank leaked his personal data on the Internet.

    Enforcement

    CSRC Bans Haitong Securities from Advisory Work for One Year

    By Editors | 25/03/2021

    The CSRC said Haitong did not effectively control risk in its bond business dealings, which resulted in Yongcheng Coal’s CNY 1 billion default.

    Enforcement

    SFC Fines GEO Securities for Breaching Licence Conditions

    By Editors | 25/03/2021

    The firm also did not have effective controls in place for product due diligence, client risk tolerance assessment, and record-keeping.

    Enforcement

    DOJ to Probe Visa Over Debit Card Routing Practices

    By Ranamita Chakraborty | 24/03/2021

    Visa is alleged to have engaged in anti-competitive practices by preventing merchants from routing payments through other card networks.

    Capital / Liquidity

    RBNZ Orders Westpac NZ to Address Risk Governance Issues

    By Ranamita Chakraborty | 24/03/2021

    Westpac’s New Zealand unit breached the RBNZ’s liquidity policy by incorrectly calculating mismatch ratios.

    Enforcement

    Japan FSA to Inspect Mizuho Over System Failures

    By Ranamita Chakraborty | 24/03/2021

    The FSA will consider whether to take disciplinary action such as issuing a business improvement order against the bank.

    Crypto / Digital Assets

    CFTC Penalises Coinbase for False Reporting, Wash Trading

    By Editors | 23/03/2021

    The settlement requires Coinbase to pay $6.5mn, and desist from any further violations of the Commodity Exchange Act or CFTC regulations.

    Enforcement

    Former Fed Employee Pleads Guilty to Stealing Bank Stress Test Data

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 23/03/2021

    The former employee faces jail time for removing restricted documents from his workstation, including proprietary information used by the Fed to conduct bank stress tests.

    AML / KYC

    Beijing Financial Court Created to Counter US Long Arm Jurisdiction

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 23/03/2021

    The extraterritorial application of China’s financial laws will play a bigger role in opening up the domestic market, the Supreme People’s Court said.

    Enforcement

    Malaysia SC Probes Share Disposals by AmBank Execs

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 23/03/2021

    Seven executives sold a combined MYR 1.63 million in shares on the same two days in December, just two months ahead of AmBank’s 1MDB settlement.

    JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER

    A daily selection of top stories from the Regulation Asia editorial team