Cloud & Infrastructure

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

    Payments & Settlements

    MAS, ABS Push Greater Adoption of Digital Financial Services

    By Editors | 10/04/2020

    The Association of Banks in Singapore, support by MAS, is offering incentives to encourage uptake and usage of peer-to-peer funds transfer service PayNow.

    Cloud & Infrastructure

    MAS Unveils Support Package to Bolster Financial Sector Capabilities

    By Editors | 08/04/2020

    The package includes training allowances, IBF course subsidies, salary support, digital acceleration grants, and free access to API Exchange.

    Structural Regulation

    SFC Extends Deadlines on Three Regulatory Initiatives

    By Editors | 31/03/2020

    The deferred initiatives relate to new requirements on external data storage, client asset protection, and brokers’ systems for maintaining order life cycle data.

    Cloud & Infrastructure

    APRA Suspends Work on New Data Collection Solution

    By Editors | 24/03/2020

    ‘APRA Connect’ go live dates will be delayed by at least six months to allow financial institutions to concentrate on their businesses and assist customers impacted by the coronavirus.

    KYC & CDD

    Moving to a Continuous KYC Process

    By Greg Watson | 23/03/2020

    Greg Watson discusses how to streamline KYC reviews and move from regular 1-3-5 year reviews to perpetual KYC, managed-by-exception.

    AI Risk & Governance

    Wolters Kluwer, PwC Complete PoC Using AI in Regulatory Reporting

    By Editors | 15/03/2020

    After minutes of training, algorithms were able to use 250,000 records of previously unseen raw data to predict regulatory reporting output with degrees of accuracy exceeding 99%.

    Cloud & Infrastructure

    APRA’s New Data Collection Solution to Go Live in Six Months

    By Editors | 12/03/2020

    The revised timeline follows APRA’s decision in October to explore alternative implementation approaches for the new solution, which will be known as ‘APRA Connect’.

    Data Privacy

    SFC Considers Easing Data Storage Rules – Report

    By Editors | 11/03/2020

    Industry bodies are reportedly working with the SFC to clarify the rules and make compliance easier, though it is unclear what specific steps it will take to ease the requirements.

    Cloud & Infrastructure

    Outsourcing Requirements for Hong Kong Banks: An Overview

    By Philip Keller | 10/03/2020

    Industry veteran Philip Keller outlines outsourcing requirements for banks in Hong Kong, with a focus on data, a major area of concern in relation to outsourced activities.

    Clearing & Post-Trade

    JPX to Test DLT Information Sharing in Securities Post Trade

    By Editors | 10/03/2020

    The pilot testing will seek to address inefficiencies in the securities post-trade process that arise as a result of data and workflow mismatches between trading counterparties.

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