INSURANCE COMMISSION

Fintech / Regtech

Thailand Insurance Regulator Unveils AI Tools to Combat Fraud

By Mark Johnston | 21/03/2025

Thai authorities take action against triggered by a sophisticated insurance scam involving multiple policies and staged accidents.

Market Infrastructure

Philippine Fund Managers Step Closer to Bond Repos

By Mark Johnston | 10/03/2025

Fund managers in the Philippines are a step closer to being able to participate in government securities repo transactions.

Philippine SEC Directs Listed Firms to Disclose Auditor Fees

By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 15/01/2025

Listed firms must disclose the fees paid to external auditors in their annual financial statements for the period ending 31 December 2024, and thereafter.

ESG / Sustainability

Philippine SEC Adopts Sustainable Finance Taxonomy

By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 06/03/2024

The SEC said issuers of securities should refer to the taxonomy when making investment decisions or designing sustainable financial products and services.

AML / KYC

Philippine Government Agencies, Departments Ordered to Adopt New AML Strategy

By Ranamita Chakraborty | 07/07/2023

The Philippines is looking to remove itself from the Financial Action Task Force’s “grey list” by improving its efforts in anti-money laundering, counter-terrorism financing, and counter-proliferation.

Fintech / Regtech

Philippines, India Agree to Collaborate on FinTech Regulation

By Ranamita Chakraborty | 21/06/2023

Key representatives from the central banks and regulatory bodies of both countries have formed a joint working group.

AML / KYC

Philippines Steps Up Efforts to Exit FATF ‘Grey’ List

By Ranamita Chakraborty | 20/06/2023

The Philippines’ Anti-Money Laundering Council’s executive director Matthew M. David talks to Regulation Asia about its action plan to take the country out of the Financial Action Task Force’s ‘Grey’ List.

ESG / Sustainability

Thailand Consults on ‘Pilot Version’ of Sustainable Finance Taxonomy

By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 02/01/2023

Like the ASEAN Taxonomy, the Thailand Taxonomy uses a traffic light system. The objectives of the taxonomy largely draw from the EU taxonomy.

Crypto / Digital Assets

Regulatory Dynamics for FinTech in Asia Pacific

By Ian Herbison | 08/11/2022

Ian Herbison and Saskia Kendall discuss three dynamics shaping the APAC FinTech industry and the need for partnership between the public and private sectors.