Commentary

With the SFC's FMCC compliance deadline about one month away, fund managers need to have key components in place, says Cordium's Derek McGibney.

The SFC will do “whatever it takes” to tackle capital markets misconduct, said deputy chief executive Julia Leung at the 2018 Refinitiv Pan Asian Regulatory Summit.

Institutions, regulators and policymakers across Asia Pacific should take heed of the lessons of Australia's Royal Commission if they are to avoid similar problems, says Matthew Chan.

With digitalisation becoming a mainstay concept, it’s time for financial institutions to rethink and take a holistic view on their digital transformational journeys.

Remi Toucheboeuf at BNP Paribas Securities Services sat down with Regulation Asia to talk about new opportunities for fund managers in Hong Kong and Singapore.

The industry will need to start preparing quickly to meet the challenges facing the derivatives market, which will reach a critical point in 2020, says ISDA CEO Scott O’Malia.

SEBI should mandate settlement of HNI trades through custodians to de-risk and expand India's capital markets, says Viraj Kulkarni at PIVOT Management Consulting.

Counterparties are exposed to material downside risk in posting collateral without restrictions on rehypothecation or non-segregation, says Matthieu Sachot at Chappuis Halder & Co.

Banks and buy-side firms should begin compliance processes to meet the September 2020 deadline as early as possible, urged panellists at the ISDA Industry and Regulatory Forum.

Legislative efforts in the EU to bring non-EU clearinghouses under EMIR has elicited sharp responses from the CFTC chairman, who said that only US regulation can apply to US derivatives markets.