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

Payments & Settlements
Trade Bodies Call on Industries to Adopt eBL Declaration
By Editors | 06/09/2023
The declaration signals a commitment to collaborate on digitalisation and adopt eBLs, which will enable faster transactions, cost savings, and lowered fraud risks.

Tokenisation
Swift Publishes Findings from Tokenisation Experiments
By Editors | 04/09/2023
Swift says its existing infrastructure can provide a single point of entry for FIs to move tokenised assets across blockchains.

Cloud & Infrastructure
FSC Korea Pledges Support for Fintech Industry
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 31/08/2023
The FSC will improve regulations to promote fintech innovation in Korea and also support the expansion of fintech firms overseas.

Cloud & Infrastructure
Australia Abruptly Halts Business Registers Upgrade Project
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 29/08/2023
Australia is stopping work on its business registers modernisation programme due to its excessive cost and expected time-to-completion.

Operational Risk
OCBC Suffers Near Four-hour Bank Service Outage
By Editors | 28/08/2023
OCBC’s internet and mobile banking platforms were disrupted from around 8.30am until around 12.20pm on Monday.

AI Risk & Governance
HKMA Announces Expanded Scope of Fintech Push
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 28/08/2023
The HKMA will take “proactive steps” to assist banks, brokers and insurers to “put fintech solutions into action”.

Data Privacy
China Allows New Accounting Treatment of Data Resources
By Editors | 24/08/2023
Under the new rules, companies will be able to classify their data as intangible assets. Data held for sale can be recognised as inventories.

AI Risk & Governance
BCG Explores the Potential of Generative AI for Finance
By Mark Johnston | 22/08/2023
BCG says CFOs should embrace generative AI “immediately” and remove any obstacles to adoption in their departments.

Structural Regulation
Bangladesh Bank Receives 52 Digital Bank Licence Applications
By Editors | 20/08/2023
The number of applications substantially exceeds projections by Bangladesh Bank, which initially intends to only grant two or three licences

Payments & Settlements
BSP Unveils Timeline for New International Transaction Reporting System
By Editors | 18/08/2023
A soft launch of the new data collection system will be in January 2024. Full implementation is set for April 2024.
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