The latest HKMA circular provides guidance to help banks assess, maintain, and enhance the competence levels of their workforce and address talent shortages.
September 8, 2023MAS managing director Ravi Menon addressed concerns that a revised scoring system for employment pass applicants could impede hiring by Singapore FIs.
May 21, 2022North Korean IT workers may try to obtain employment building crypto exchange platforms and then use the infrastructure to launder money and evade sanctions.
May 20, 2022Banks have until 2 May 2023 to put in place the necessary internal controls, policies and procedures required for Phase 1 implementation of the MRC regime.
May 9, 2022Insurers and takaful operators must undertake a due diligence process that includes reference checks with all of an agent's current and former employers.
April 30, 2022The court ruled that Hana Financial Group vice chairman Ham Young-joo was responsible for failing to protect retail investors from high risk financial products.
March 18, 2022CBM approval is needed to hire foreign employees. Large banks are limited to 25 foreign employees; medium-sized banks to 15; and small banks to 8.
August 10, 2021MAS proposes to expand the scope of FIs and employees subject to the mandatory reference checking regime. FIs will have to maintain records for all employees.
May 17, 2021Yoon Suk-heun, whose three-year term ends in two months, allegedly promoted certain officials who had been punished for hiring irregularities.
March 10, 2021The Supreme Court ruled that 27 of Woori's employees were involved in unfair hiring practices, 19 of which still work for the bank.
October 21, 2020