The HKMA is looking to build a more diversified regtech ecosystem in Hong Kong and urges for greater collaboration between the banking industry and technology community.
September 28, 2018An IHS Markit survey of 34 banks in North America, Europe and Australia suggests the industry needs to move more quickly to get their target risk architectures for FRTB in place by 2022.
September 20, 2018FIA, IFF and GFMA said in a consultative response that the current capital regime overstates the risks of client clearing and raises the costs of providing client clearing services.
September 13, 2018Central bank to exempt institutions incorporated overseas from new local IRRBB framework in cases where parent group is not additionally represented in Hong Kong through a locally incorporated institution.
September 3, 2018APRA is seeking industry feedback on potential new approaches to the capital framework for banks to make them more internationally comparable and flexible.
August 16, 2018FSB, CPMI, IOSCO and BCBS find continued concentration of prefunded financial resources at small number of CCPs; exposures to CCPs also concentrated among small number of clearing members.
August 15, 2018FSB, BCBS, CPMI and IOSCO consultative document suggests some aspects of regulatory reform may not incentivise provision of client clearing services.
August 9, 2018Pending an update from the Basel Committee on FRTB, the SFC will assess the readiness of LCs to adopt the internal models approach for market risk based on the Basel II.5 framework.
August 6, 2018HKMA has extended the implementation deadline for its bank exposure limit rules to 1 July 2019 given the tight implementation deadline and concerns raised by the industry.
July 30, 2018Basel’s new capital rules have impacted global derivatives markets by purging participants and liquidity. Whether or not this was the intended outcome, it will create onerous costs for entire markets and consumers.
July 23, 2018