Market Infrastructure

    Enforcement

    UniCredit China Employee Embezzled $15mn of Client Money

    By Editors | 10/04/2019

    The employee allegedly used a group supervisor’s password to access the funds, which were used to buy apartment units in the US, Greece and Japan.

    Securities / Derivatives

    Digital Asset, ISDA Collaborate to Drive Adoption of ISDA CDM

    By Editors | 10/04/2019

    Digital Asset will help create a new reference code library that will simplify and standardise the process of generating lifecycle events defined in the ISDA Common Domain Model.

    Market Infrastructure

    Payments Connectivity Sees Continued Progress in ASEAN

    By Editors | 10/04/2019

    Bank of Thailand outlined a number of key initiatives with other ASEAN nations to increase regional connectivity in cross-border payments.

    Market Infrastructure

    DTCC Partners with Droit to Automate Pre-Reporting Decision-Making

    By Editors | 10/04/2019

    DTCC’s pre-reporting solution can now determine – in real-time – the global cross-regulatory reporting implications and obligations for a particular transaction.

    Market Infrastructure

    RBI to Unify Complaints Handling for Digital Payments

    By Editors | 10/04/2019

    The RBI plans to speed up customer complaint processing and redressal times across all domestic payment platforms by end-June.

    Market Infrastructure

    Australia Consults on Payments System Migration to ISO 20022

    By Editors | 10/04/2019

    The RBA and Australian Payments Council have issued a consultation to help the industry agree on key strategic decisions for migrating the payment system to ISO 20022 by end-2024.

    Market Infrastructure

    The Impact of Culture and Conduct – Industry’s Biggest Blind Spot

    By Prasanna Venkatesan | 09/04/2019

    Looking beyond regulations aimed at cultural reform, Synpulse’s Prasanna Venkatesan discusses how conduct and culture can be operationalised, measured and managed in private banking.

    Market Infrastructure

    FCA, ASIC Ensure Post-Brexit Continuity, Cooperation

    By Editors | 08/04/2019

    The FCA and ASIC have signed MoUs on trade repositories and alternative investment funds, and adopted existing equivalence decisions on their supervisory and regulatory regimes.

    Big Picture

    BigTechs Contribute to Efficiency – and Risk – in Financial Services

    By Manesh Samtani | 08/04/2019

    A BIS working paper says BigTechs enhance competition, financial inclusion and efficiency in financial services, but they also concentrate market power and give rise to systemic risk.

    Fintech / Regtech

    ACCC Publishes Draft Rules for Open Banking Data Sharing

    By Editors | 08/04/2019

    The draft rules provide detail and guidance as to how the Consumer Data Right will work in the banking sector starting in July this year.

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