Cloud & Infrastructure

    Coverage of regulatory trends, risks, and innovations in the adoption of cloud services and critical infrastructure for financial institutions.

    Payments & Settlements

    Tokyo Stock Exchange Faces FSA Probe Over System Outage

    By Manesh Samtani | 20/10/2020

    Based on an on-site investigation and findings from JPX’s own investigative committee, the FSA will consider issuing a business improvement order.

    Cloud & Infrastructure

    Japan FSA to Debut Online Filing Platform by March 2021

    By Editors | 18/10/2020

    The FSA plans to update its ordinances and guidelines to enable a complete shift to online applications and filings by March 2022.

    Structural Regulation

    RegTech Asia 2020: LIBOR Transition Progress

    By Editors | 14/10/2020

    How has LIBOR transition been progressing in Asia Pacific, and how is technology helping to facilitate transition efforts?

    Structural Regulation

    Japan Financial Hub Ambitions Centre on Three Cities – Report

    By Editors | 13/10/2020

    Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga reportedly plans to quickly address issues concerning taxation, residency requirements and language support to attract foreign talent.

    Cloud & Infrastructure

    FSB Calls on Authorities to Regulate BigTech in Financial Services

    By Editors | 12/10/2020

    Where financial services activities are undertaken by new types of actors, such as BigTech firms, the principle of ‘same risk-same regulation’ should apply, the report says.

    AI Risk & Governance

    SupTech Increasingly a Strategic Priority for Authorities: FSB

    By Editors | 11/10/2020

    The majority of authorities surveyed by the FSB had a SupTech, innovation or data strategy in place. SupTech is most commonly used in regulatory reporting and data management.

    KYC & CDD

    Hong Leong Bank Launches Digital Account Opening

    By Editors | 08/10/2020

    Hong Leong has become the first Malaysia bank to launch “fully digital” account opening, just three months after BNM’s new e-KYC guidelines took effect.

    Cloud & Infrastructure

    RegTech Asia 2020: Addressing Complex Regulatory Change

    By Editors | 08/10/2020

    SmartStream’s Vincent Kilcoyne discusses the use of technology and automation to address regulatory change, highlighting the need for high quality data.

    AI Risk & Governance

    BIS Innovation Hub Announces G20 TechSprint Winners

    By Editors | 07/10/2020

    FNA won the dynamic information-sharing category; Tookitaki won in the monitoring and surveillance category; ISDA and REGnosys won the regulatory reporting category.

    Clearing & Post-Trade

    ISDA, Digital Asset Launch CDM Clearing Pilot Using DAML

    By Editors | 06/10/2020

    Deploying the Common Domain Model for clearing using DAML will increase standardisation and operational efficiency across the entire clearing lifecycle.

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