International

Securities / Derivatives

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.

Market Infrastructure

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.

Big Picture

BigTechs Contribute to Efficiency – and Risk – in Financial Services

By Manesh Samtani | 08/04/2019

A BIS working paper says BigTechs enhance competition, financial inclusion and efficiency in financial services, but they also concentrate market power and give rise to systemic risk.

Market Infrastructure

Supervisors Should Avoid Fragmenting Clearing Ecosystem – Report

By Editors | 07/04/2019

A report from the World Federation of Exchanges and Oliver Wyman urges supervisors to ensure outstanding CCP reforms are implemented in line with agreed principles to avoid fragmentation.

Capital / Liquidity

Sectoral CCyB May be Useful Addition to Existing Tools – BCBS Paper

By Editors | 05/04/2019

Sectoral CCyBs increase banking system resilience at a lower cost than the Basel III CCyB, and can serve to reduce excessive credit growth and risks in targeted segments.

Big Picture

Talking Disintermediation by DLT with DTCC’s Rob Palatnick

By Manesh Samtani | 04/04/2019

Regulation Asia sat down with DTCC’s Rob Palatnick to discuss his views on how far DLT will go in disintermediating the financial industry.

Market Infrastructure

SWIFT Sees Growing ISO 20022 Adoption in Asia Pacific

By Manesh Samtani | 03/04/2019

SWIFT has released a new report on the state of adoption of the ISO 20022 financial messaging standard among Asia Pacific securities market infrastructures.

AML / KYC

Artificial Intelligence – the Ultimate Weapon to Fight Financial Crime

By Karl Seagrave | 03/04/2019

Getting buy-in from senior management is one of the biggest hurdles to adopting AI in the fight against financial crime, says Fenergo’s Karl Seagrave.

AML / KYC

UN Security Council Resolution Targets Terrorism Financing

By Editors | 01/04/2019

The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution calling on member states to beef up efforts to identify, prosecute and penalise those directly or indirectly financing terrorism.