Regulation Asia Podcasts

Accelerating climate change and its threats increase the urgency for governments and businesses to meet their net-zero commitment and make more important the role of global financial markets in facilitating capital flows towards transition efforts. Regulation Asia Co-Founder Brad Maclean sat down with Michael Tang, who heads up SGX RegCo’s Sustainable Development Office and the Listing Policy and Product Admission unit, as well as Clare Lim from the Sustainable Development Office, to explore the initiatives underway at SGX Group to help achieve our net zero goals.

The continuing evolution and growing complexity of the sanctions landscape have made it more important than ever for banks to have in place a robust sanctions compliance programme. In this context, Regulation Asia Co-Founder Brad Maclean sat down with Frederic Boulier, Senior Director and Global Head of Financial Crime & Compliance Management Solution Consulting at Oracle, to discuss the operational, technology and data-related challenges associated with effective sanctions compliance in the current environment, as well as the processes firms should have in place to manage and mitigate risk while maximising efficiency.

In this episode, Regulation Asia co-founder Brad Maclean and editor Manesh Samtani talk to Chinali Patel, International Illicit Finance Policy Lead at the British Consulate-General in Hong Kong, and Henry Williams, Head of Investigations at Themis, about illegal wildlife trade and the development of a new toolkit to help financial institutions combat this activity.

The toolkit was developed by the UK and UAE governments in collaboration with WWF, TRAFFIC and Themis – and is freely accessible here.

In this episode, Regulation Asia co-founder Brad Maclean and editor Manesh Samtani sit down with Tom Keatinge, founding director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies (CFCS) at RUSI, and Nick Turner, a lawyer with Steptoe & Johnson in Hong Kong and a RUSI associate fellow, to discuss the sanctions being imposed against Russia and how they are impacting financial institutions and business.

Check out the CFCS 'Suspicious Transaction Report' podcast series here, and follow Nick Turner's weekly 'Sanctions Top-5' updates here.

In the third episode of this special series of podcasts in partnership with SWIFT, Brad Maclean, co-founder of Regulation Asia sits down with Julie Bolan, Head of Business Innovation for Oceania at SWIFT, to discuss how financial institutions can leverage the power of Collaborative Innovation to address rapidly evolving customer expectations that continue to challenge existing business models.

In the second episode of this special series of podcasts in partnership with SWIFT, Brad Maclean, co-founder of Regulation Asia sits down with Nicolas Stuckens, Head of Sanctions Initatives at SWIFT, to discuss how sanctions screening and financial crime compliance will be impacted as the financial industry migrates to ISO 20022.

Guiding principles for screening ISO 20022 payments: Download