Markets & Infrastructure

Trading & Investment

Digital Asset, ISDA Collaborate to Drive Adoption of ISDA CDM

By Editors | 10/04/2019

Digital Asset will help create a new reference code library that will simplify and standardise the process of generating lifecycle events defined in the ISDA Common Domain Model.

Conduct, Culture & Accountability

New Zealand Financial Services Bill Puts Client Interests First

By Editors | 10/04/2019

New Zealand has passed new legislation enabling a new framework for regulating financial advice. The new regime will come into effect in the first half of 2020.

Payments & Settlements

Payments Connectivity Sees Continued Progress in ASEAN

By Editors | 10/04/2019

Bank of Thailand outlined a number of key initiatives with other ASEAN nations to increase regional connectivity in cross-border payments.

Clearing & Post-Trade

DTCC Partners with Droit to Automate Pre-Reporting Decision-Making

By Editors | 10/04/2019

DTCC’s pre-reporting solution can now determine – in real-time – the global cross-regulatory reporting implications and obligations for a particular transaction.

Payments & Settlements

RBI to Unify Complaints Handling for Digital Payments

By Editors | 10/04/2019

The RBI plans to speed up customer complaint processing and redressal times across all domestic payment platforms by end-June.

Conduct, Culture & Accountability

Australia Passes Law Forcing Financial Firms to Cooperate with AFCA

By Editors | 10/04/2019

A new law has made it mandatory for all financial firms to fully cooperate with AFCA to resolve consumer and small business disputes.

Payments & Settlements

Australia Consults on Payments System Migration to ISO 20022

By Editors | 10/04/2019

The RBA and Australian Payments Council have issued a consultation to help the industry agree on key strategic decisions for migrating the payment system to ISO 20022 by end-2024.

Conduct, Culture & Accountability

The Impact of Culture and Conduct – Industry’s Biggest Blind Spot

By Prasanna Venkatesan | 09/04/2019

Looking beyond regulations aimed at cultural reform, Synpulse’s Prasanna Venkatesan discusses how conduct and culture can be operationalised, measured and managed in private banking.

Structural Regulation

FCA, ASIC Ensure Post-Brexit Continuity, Cooperation

By Editors | 08/04/2019

The FCA and ASIC have signed MoUs on trade repositories and alternative investment funds, and adopted existing equivalence decisions on their supervisory and regulatory regimes.