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    Investors Call for Mandatory Climate Disclosures in Australia

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 01/07/2021

    Paper outlines suggestions for mandatory climate risk disclosures to be introduced in Australia over the next four years.

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    Japan’s Amended Banking Act to Have Limited Impact: Fitch

    By Ranamita Chakraborty | 30/06/2021

    The amendment is expected to contribute only marginally to addressing Japanese banks’ structural profitability challenges, Fitch Ratings says.

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    New Report Explores Impact of AT/HFT on Hong Kong Equities

    By Manesh Samtani | 28/06/2021

    Algorithmic trading and high-frequency trading were generally not found to have a deteriorating impact on market liquidity or increase market volatility.

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    AmCham Offers Taiwan Tips for Improving Financial Sector

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 27/06/2021

    AmCham Taipei’s new whitepaper offers recommendations for banking, capital markets, asset management, private equity, insurance, tax, and sustainable development.

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    Industry Cooperation is Key to Trade Finance Innovation

    By Henry Roxas | 27/06/2021

    R3’s Henry Roxas discusses the prevalence of paper-based methods in trade finance and the need for broader industry efforts to digitise practices.

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    ASIFMA Calls for Harmonised Approach to Regulating AI

    By Editors | 25/06/2021

    Regulators should leverage existing frameworks that largely already address and mitigate the key risks associated with the increased use of AI.

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    Citadel Securities Offers Best Practices to Address Exchange Outages

    By Manesh Samtani | 24/06/2021

    Common issues that have compounded the impact of recent outages continue to be largely overlooked by some exchanges.

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    Enterprise Ireland, Kapronasia Publish APAC Regtech Study

    By Manesh Samtani | 23/06/2021

    Lengthy procurement processes, cumbersome IT and security approvals, and implementation complexity are hindering APAC regtech adoption.

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    GFMA, BCG Publish Principles for Climate Finance Taxonomies

    By Editors | 23/06/2021

    The principles are based on a broader definition of climate finance which goes beyond debt instruments and captures equity financing and working capital.

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    NGFS Paper Sets Out Biodiversity Loss Research Agenda

    By Editors | 21/06/2021

    An NGFS/INSPIRE study group will seek to improve understanding of the link between biodiversity loss and financial stability.

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