Markets & Infrastructure

    Supervision & Enforcement

    BaFin Faces Criminal Probe Over Wirecard Response

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 14/04/2021

    BaFin has been under fire since mid-last year for failing to properly respond to multiple red flags signalling an accounting fraud at Wirecard.

    Trading & Investment

    US SEC Identifies Accounting Issues with SPAC Listings

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 14/04/2021

    Some warrants issued to early SPAC investors may have been recorded as equity instruments when they should have instead been recorded as liabilities.

    Trading & Investment

    China: SAFE Approves $5b in QDLP Quotas for Hainan

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 14/04/2021

    The QDLP pilot programme will enable foreign fund managers to raise money in Hainan for investments overseas.

    Operational Risk

    Mizuho Head to Turn Down JBA Chairmanship – Report

    By Editors | 14/04/2021

    Mizuho Financial Group president and group CEO Tatsufumi Sakai was due to take over as JBA chairman on 1 April.

    Cloud & Infrastructure

    China: CFCA Starts to Embed LEIs in Digital Certificates

    By Manesh Samtani | 14/04/2021

    The China Financial Certification Authority has also become the first certification authority to become a validation agent in the Global LEI System.

    Conduct, Culture & Accountability

    ASIC Sets Expectations on New Complaints Handling Obligations

    By Ranamita Chakraborty | 14/04/2021

    ASIC plans to check in with industry at various stages of RG 271’s implementation and assess whether its expectations about preparation are being met.

    Cloud & Infrastructure

    Korea Enhances Regulatory Sandbox Through Legislative Revisions

    By Manesh Samtani | 13/04/2021

    The revisions will allow sandbox participants to file requests to the FSC and other relevant authorities for changes to regulations.

    Trading & Investment

    FSB Issues Guidance on Implementing SFT Data Standards

    By Editors | 13/04/2021

    The FSB has published FAQs to help national authorities implement the SFT Data Standards to facilitate global collection and aggregation of SFT data.

    Conduct, Culture & Accountability

    SEBI Fines Yes Bank, Three Others for Mis-selling AT1 Bonds

    By Editors | 13/04/2021

    SEBI says Yes Bank misled individual investors into buying risky AT1 bonds and did not inform them of the risks involved or conduct risk profiling.

    Structural Regulation

    Regulators Order Ant Group to Establish Financial Holding Company

    By Manesh Samtani | 12/04/2021

    Ant Group will have to accept greater regulatory supervision, improve its corporate governance, and separate some of its businesses.

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