Australia

Fintech / Regtech

Cryptocurrencies No Longer On The Fringes, says ASIC Chair

By Mark Johnston | 24/11/2021

ASIC chair Joe Longo sees crypto as no longer on the fringes of the financial services industry, but cautions investors against involvement.

AFCA Launches Benchmarking Tool for Complaints Resolution

By Editors | 23/11/2021

The platform enables FIs to track complaints resolution and compare their performance against an anonymised set of similar financial firms.

Capital / Liquidity

RBNZ Consults on Potential Mortgage Lending Restrictions

By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 23/11/2021

Banks need to prepare their systems for the future introduction of DSRs, and should be operationally ready to implement a regulated DTI limit by end-2022.

APRA Seeks Information from Super Trustees on Financial Resilience

By Ranamita Chakraborty | 22/11/2021

APRA has issued a discussion paper seeking to better understand current and emerging approaches for managing financial resources.

AML / KYC

AUSTRAC Issues Guidance on Misuse of Payment Text Fields

By Editors | 22/11/2021

Payment text fields in financial transactions are increasingly being used as a method of criminal communication or abuse, AUSTRAC says.

Fintech / Regtech

ASX Opens DLT-as-a-Service Platform for Production Use

By Editors | 21/11/2021

Synfini uses the same underlying technology as ASX’s replacement system for CHESS, but is offered as a cloud service to facilitate product innovation.

Capital / Liquidity

APRA to Require Banks to Maintain Surplus Self-securitised Assets

By Editors | 21/11/2021

Banks will have to hold 30 percent of their LCR net cash outflows in self-securitised assets as contingency for periods of stress.

Market Infrastructure

RBA to Upgrade IT Infrastructure to Improve Resilience, Lower Costs

By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 18/11/2021

The upgrades are intended to address technical issues in the RBA’s existing infrastructure, some of which is “facing obsolescence” and requires costly maintenance.

ASIC Issues Draft Guidance on Consumer Remediation

By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 18/11/2021

ASIC has expanded its consumer remediation guidance to cover all financial services licensees, credit licensees and retirement service providers.