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Whistleblowers reportedly claim that Standard Chartered Bank cleared more transactions in violation of Iran sanctions than the US government had used as its basis for fines issued in April.

The measures ease restrictions on foreign investment in securities firms, asset management companies, FX brokerage, insurance and pension management, among others.

The new gateway will reduce the setup costs required to access the NDID and enable financial firms to enable full digitisation of customer onboarding more quickly.

The Insurance Authority is delegating inspection and investigation powers to the HKMA in relation to insurance related business conducted by authorised institutions.

Under the proposal, auditors will be required to finalise their audit reports and make detailed disclosures regarding their reasons for resignation from listed companies.

Phase 2 used smart contracts to automate bond lifecycle events, and introduced pre-validation to reduce error and fraud in funds transfers. Phase 3 will be a joint effort with the HKMA.

Third country benchmark administrators will need every bit of the additional time granted for BMR compliance to ensure their benchmarks get approved, say PwC’s Gregory Campbell and Daniela Bunea.

ASIC's ban will protect consumers where sales issues and consumer harm have already been identified, ahead of wider legislative reform by the government.

Listed banks will have to make disclosures if the additional provisioning for NPAs assessed by RBI exceeds 10% of reported profit, compared to 15% previously.

All cross-border payments in the trial, which involved 17 banks across 7 countries, settled end-to-end within 25 seconds. SWIFT gpi has also now been introduced for corporates.