Asia-Pacific
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871ESMA to Bring 3rd-country CRAs, Trade Repositories Under EU Supervision
Samuel Riding, Regulation Asia December 4, 2017ESMA executive director Verena Ross says more than 200 non-EU trading venues have asked for exemptions from MiFID II post-trade transparency, position limits.
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695Malaysia Trialling Blockchain-based Unlisted, OTC Markets
Editors, Regulation Asia December 4, 2017Distributed ledger trial will form basis of technology architecture, software functions and development standards to underpin markets.
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746Report Sets out Macau AML/CTF Weaknesses
Editors, Regulation Asia December 4, 2017Asia Pacific Group says authorities have not yet grasped cross-border AML risks, but praises use of intelligence to produce suspicious transaction reports.
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638Private Sector Leverage Remains Key Risk for Asian Banks – Moody’s
Garima Chitkara, Regulation Asia November 30, 2017Report suggests private sector debt has risen in 12 of 14 Asian countries; FSB addressing risks from housing market, rising household debt in Asia.
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BoJ Urges Asian Local Currency Debt Market Development
Garima Chitkara, Regulation Asia November 30, 2017Haruhiko Kuroda says firms in Asia need to diversify their sources of funding to protect against market shocks as ASEAN initiatives increase.
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5.3KAsian Firms at Risk of Drowning Under Wave of Regulation from US, Europe
David Farmery, Message Automation, Broadridge November 30, 2017The wave of financial regulation about to wash over Europe and North America could eventually overwhelm Asian institutions.
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Indonesia Regulator to Set-up Regtech Surveillance System
Editors, Regulation Asia November 27, 2017New technology to include integrated surveillance including early-warning system, data analysis and online regulatory reporting for financial institutions.
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Vietnam to Allow Banks to Go Bankrupt
Editors, Regulation Asia November 27, 2017Bankruptcy will be a last resort; Vietnamese banking sector has bad debts of 8.6% of total credit, 17.2% NPL ratio; Moody's outlook 'positive'
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Bank Officials Involved in Majority of Online Banking Forgeries in Bangladesh
Garima Chitkara, Regulation Asia November 23, 2017A Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management survey has found that bank officials are directly involved in 67 per cent of online banking forgeries in collusion with IT firms.
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Philippines Looks to Blockchain to Spur Financial Inclusion
Garima Chitkara, Regulation Asia November 23, 2017The Bankers Association of the Philippines has launched a digitisation initiative to facilitate customer identity management and verification through blockchain technology.
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