Cloud & Infrastructure

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

    Data Privacy

    Tencent, Alibaba Refuse to Share Data to National Credit Database

    By Editors | 20/09/2019

    Tencent Credit and Alibaba’s Sesame Credit hold more customer data than any of their online lending peers, but they are not providing the data to the national credit database.

    Cloud & Infrastructure

    FSC Korea to Provide Funding Support to Fintechs

    By Editors | 19/09/2019

    FSC chairman Eun Sung-soo told fintech executives that a 300 billion won fund will be set up to invest in the sector and regulations will be eased to promote fintech development.

    Cloud & Infrastructure

    HKMA Signs Operational Agreement for BIS Innovation Hub

    By Editors | 18/09/2019

    The Hub will foster collaboration between central banks and scale up the application of innovative technologies globally, says the HKMA’s Norman Chan.

    Structural Regulation

    Hong Kong Virtual Banks Likely to Delay Launch – Report

    By Editors | 18/09/2019

    Hong Kong virtual banks are reportedly delaying plans to start promotional campaigns partly in response to city-wide protests, among other reasons.

    Cybersecurity

    Korean Banks Boost Spending of Cybersecurity, IT: BOK

    By Editors | 17/09/2019

    Banks are increasingly relying on outsourcing for cloud computing, which may become a potential vulnerability if adequate precautions are not in place.

    Cloud & Infrastructure

    Australia Establishes Senate Committee on Fintech, Regtech

    By Editors | 16/09/2019

    The committee will inquire into the opportunities of fintech and regtech, and benchmark Australia’s environment for innovation against comparable global regimes.

    Cloud & Infrastructure

    Financial Institutions Must Adapt and Innovate or Be Left Behind

    By Greg Watson | 13/09/2019

    Outdated systems are preventing one in four Asia Pacific banks from investing in disruptive technologies, says Greg Watson, citing a recent Fenergo survey.

    Cloud & Infrastructure

    Half of IT Budgets to Go to Cloud Services in 2020: Refinitiv

    By Editors | 10/09/2019

    Financial firms say public cloud projects are delivering better-than-expected cost reductions and enabling innovation, but data privacy and regulatory concerns are slowing adoption.

    Payments & Settlements

    Singapore Streamlines Payment Firms’ Access to Legal Services

    By Editors | 09/09/2019

    The initiative will help connect the payments industry with specialist law firms through a streamlined process to help them comply with the new Payment Services Act.

    Trading & Investment

    HKEX Recovers from Derivatives Market Outage

    By Editors | 06/09/2019

    Derivatives trading was suspended on Thursday due to software issues in HKEX’s vendor supplied trading system, which “have now been isolated”.

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