Commentary
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142Ant Financial – A Disruptive Force for Regulators
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia April 23, 2018Blurring the regulatory distinction between banking and financial technology creates both opportunity and pitfalls.
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49APAC Firms Failing at Cyber Breach Detection – Report
Manesh Samtani, Regulation Asia April 22, 2018Asia Pacific firms take over 16 months to detect breaches, compared to over three months globally; over 35 months if breaches detected...
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38APRA’s Economic and Financial Statistics Reform: A User’s Guide to Readiness
Douglas Cheung, Wolters Kluwer April 19, 2018APRA may have delayed planned reforms to the Economic and Financial Statistics reported by banks, but banks can’t afford to be complacent,...
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58HK Brokers Rush to Comply with SFC Cybersecurity Rules
JP Reimann, Regulation Asia April 18, 2018Several online brokers had been hoping for a delay, tech advisory firm suggests some are ‘willing to trade a little security for...
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178Outsourcing Compliance and Cybersecurity is Increasingly Risky Business
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia April 16, 2018Recent FCA case highlights cost of mismanaged outsourcing. Potential IT problems are brewing for private equity GPs too as big deals systemically...
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149MiFID II Could Kill Quality Investment Research
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia April 9, 2018If almost all communications between sales-traders and clients is classified as “research”, severe distortions will hit the economics of quality investment insights.
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302Decline of the House of Basel
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia March 26, 2018The Basel regime has shown itself to be incomplete and not universally applicable. With the Trump administration seeking to allow a return...
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259Systemically Damaging Cyber-attack Inevitable – DTCC
Manesh Samtani, Regulation Asia March 21, 2018White paper calls for industry collaboration to develop common response and recovery standards and contingencies to mitigate impending attack.
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275China’s Bold Regulatory Reorganisation
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia March 19, 2018Super regulator’s major obstacle will be resisting the cycles of international financial history while meeting the challenges of a big, fast-growing economy.
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Who’s Picking up the MiFID II Bill?
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia March 12, 2018MiFID II’s rollout into the middle of a market reversal and complaints about asset manager fees couldn’t have come at a worse...
