Enforcement

Central bank concerned up to 32,000 people have been defrauded; Prime Minister urges regulators to ‘toughen management’ of cryptocurrency activity.

Prosecutors on Friday raided KRX and Woori Bank, two of the institutions that allegedly paid for Kim Ki-sik’s 2014 an 2015 overseas trips.

RBI fines state-owned lender IDBI Bank INR30 million for non-compliance with bad loan recognition and provisioning norms; ruling will not have a material impact on the bank, said IDBI.

Taiwan FSC censured and demoted 54 managers at seven state banks for their involvement in a $679mn syndicated loan-fraud scandal.

The firm mistakenly paid out dividends worth 33 times its market cap; FSS will inspect how unauthorised ‘ghost stocks’ were sold by employees.

The company did not ensure customers had sufficient product information, failed to comply with rules on customer data, included misleading information in ads.

American convinced victim to make $600,000 investment with promise of 30% return, but instead transferred to Singapore account.

Ex head of equity markets at Malaysia’s largest bank also fined $250,000 for offences which occurred more than 10 years ago.

New FSS chief to protect investors and root out irregularities by targeting predatory lending, bank profit structures, family-run conglomerates.

Chinese authorities step up focus on the online asset management industry to clean up unlicensed firms.