Cybersecurity

    Reporting on regulatory requirements, enforcement actions, and best practices to safeguard financial institutions and markets against cyber threats, data breaches, and vulnerabilities through proactive measures.

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    Cloud & Infrastructure

    Regulatory Intervention Needed to Address Cloud Adoption Risks: BIS Paper

    By Manesh Samtani | 18/11/2023

    Indirect oversight of CSPs, i.e. requiring financial firms to manage the risks, “may not be sufficient from a systemic perspective”, the paper says.

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    Data Privacy

    China Drafts New Data Security Rules for Auditors

    By Editors | 18/11/2023

    The rules require auditors to improve data security management, and store audit working papers only within China’s borders.

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    Anti-Money Laundering

    MAS Issues Draft Requirements for Data Sharing Through COSMIC

    By Manesh Samtani | 17/11/2023

    The requirements cover the internal policies FIs must put in place to share information through COSMIC, and the appropriate use and safeguarding of information received.

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    AI Risk & Governance

    MAS-Backed Consortium Develops GenAI Risk Framework

    By Editors | 16/11/2023

    The risk framework will enable FIs to use GenAI in a responsible manner, including by leveraging illustrative use cases to better understand its impacts.

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    Structural Regulation

    China: NFRA, CSRC Publish New Details on Scope of Responsibilities

    By Editors | 16/11/2023

    The NFRA was established in May as a new body to oversee all sectors of the financial industry, except securities, though it is absorbing investor protection responsibilities from the CSRC.

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    Structural Regulation

    India’s AMFI Issues Guidelines for Execution-only Mutual Fund Platforms

    By Ajoy K Das | 13/11/2023

    The guidelines come ahead of an end-November deadline for platforms selling direct mutual fund schemes to register with AMFI.

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    Cybersecurity

    ASIC Says Cyber Resilience “Must be a Top Priority”

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 13/11/2023

    ASIC’s cyber pulse survey found “significant” cyber security risk management deficiencies at listed companies and licensed entities.

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    Fraud, Scams & Cybercrime

    US Unit of China’s ICBC Suffers Ransomware Attack

    By Editors | 10/11/2023

    The attack disrupted some of ICBC’s systems and left some trades in the US Treasury and equity markets unable to settle.

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    Cybersecurity

    Korea FSS Issues Guidance on Mitigating Technology Risks

    By Editors | 09/11/2023

    The guidelines are intended to improve the level of IT internal control in the financial industry and improve the resilience of individual firms.

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    Operational Risk

    DBS to Strengthen In-House Software Engineering Team

    By Editors | 08/11/2023

    DBS chief Piyush Gupta said deeper engineering talent is needed in-house to troubleshoot software bugs such as those that caused this year’s service disruptions.

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