KYC & CDD

    News on regulatory requirements, innovations, and challenges in customer identification, risk assessments, and due diligence processes for financial institutions.

    Anti-Money Laundering

    Pakistan Investigating 444 Individuals in Panama, Bahamas Leaks

    By Samuel Riding | 24/10/2016

    Federal Board of Review asks SBP and SECP for transaction details of local and overseas accounts.

    KYC & CDD

    Why Fee Generation Trumps Reputational Risk

    By Peter Guy | 17/10/2016

    Goldman Sachs’s victorious case against LIA an object lesson in bank’s priorities.

    Anti-Money Laundering

    Indian Investigators Probe P-Note Data

    By Samuel Riding | 13/10/2016

    Regulator hands over list of beneficial owners and transfer trails for P-note investments.

    AI Risk & Governance

    Regtech for Regulators – A New Paradigm

    By Samuel Riding | 13/10/2016

    Study suggests regulators are behind those they regulate in implementing technology.

    KYC & CDD

    De-risking and Asia’s Move to Centralised KYC

    By Samuel Riding | 06/10/2016

    How concerns about excessive KYC are driving a move away from institution to country-based systems.

    Anti-Money Laundering

    Indonesia Tax Amnesty Expected to Net $346bn

    By Samuel Riding | 05/10/2016

    Singapore the largest source of assets from overseas including property, gold and land.

    Anti-Money Laundering

    SFC Clarifies Broker Requirements

    By Samuel Riding | 03/10/2016

    Clarification follows unusual step of public warning on internal AML controls.

    KYC & CDD

    Accuity Adds Beneficial Ownership Identification to Bankers Almanac

    By Samuel Riding | 28/09/2016

    Function identifies beneficial ownership interests of 0.1% or more versus regulatory thresholds of 10% or 20%.

    KYC & CDD

    CRS: More than Just a Global FATCA

    By Editors | 27/09/2016

    Whitepaper explores the complex requirements of looming reporting standard.

    Anti-Money Laundering

    Philippines Proposes New Money Service Rules

    By Samuel Riding | 26/09/2016

    Draft rules require ‘money service businesses’ to register with BSP; raises concern about hindering remittance flows

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