INTERNATIONAL

ESG / Sustainability

Net Zero Banking Alliance Softens Mandate for Members

By ESG Investor | 16/04/2025

A strategic review of NZBA’s framework has introduced more pragmatism, allowing banks more agency to achieve their individual climate targets.

Big Picture

BIS Paper Proposes Standardised Model to Describe Payment System Architectures

By Manesh Samtani | 15/04/2025

The authors therefore propose a formally defined model to represent three key functions of payment system architectures

Sanctions

OFSI Publishes Threat Assessment for Property Services Sector

By Manesh Samtani | 15/04/2025

The report finds that small-scale property services firms and sole practitioners are more likely to have facilitated Russia-related breaches.

AML / KYC

Shedding Light on HSBC’s Use of Machine Learning in Transaction Monitoring

By Manesh Samtani | 14/04/2025

Olivier Franses talks to Regulation Asia about HSBC’s use of machine learning in transaction monitoring, the challenges of implementation, and the resulting benefits.

ESG / Sustainability

BNM Leads ASEAN Push to Green Supply Chains

By Nithya Subramanian | 13/04/2025

Drawing from Malaysia’s GVC programme, the UNDP, BNM and ADB published a playbook to help ASEAN SMEs decarbonise.

Sanctions

OFAC Unveils New Sanctions Targeting Iran Oil Shipments to Asia

By Manesh Samtani | 11/04/2025

An Indian national, his India- and UAE-based companies, dozens of vessels, and a Chinese oil storage terminal were targeted.

Big Picture

Regulatory Fragmentation Hindering Growth of Tokenised Finance – Report

By Thisanka Siripala | 10/04/2025

Regulatory fragmentation, cross-platform settlement and token contract standardisation are the key challenges to to widespread adoption of tokenised financial assets.

ESG / Sustainability

IFRS Foundation, TNFD to Partner on Nature-related Disclosures

By ESG Investor | 10/04/2025

TNFD’s disclosure recommendations will be incorporated in the development of the ISSB’s sustainability reporting standards.

AML / KYC

GLEIF Certifies Hong Kong Firm as Qualified vLEI Issuer

By Editors | 10/04/2025

Certizen Technology’s qualification represents another significant milestone in the development of the vLEI ecosystem, said GLEIF CEO Alexandre Kech.