Manesh Samtani
Manesh Samtani is the Editor at Regulation Asia, where he leads the regional news desk from Hong Kong, directing coverage of critical regulatory developments impacting financial services across APAC. Manesh specialises in analysing how new rules and technologies are reshaping banking, capital markets, and the fight against financial crime, providing finance professionals, compliance leaders, and policymakers with the intelligence they need to navigate risk and understand the impact of regulatory change in the region. manesh@regulationasia.com
Articles by Manesh Samtani
Crypto / Digital Assets
OECD Assesses DeFi’s Role in ASEAN to Promote Financial Inclusion
20/03/2024
Innovation associated with DeFi, provided in a regulated and compliant form, could offer possible financial inclusion benefits such as in MSME financing.
ESG / Sustainability
ASIC to Develop Climate Reporting Guidance for Small Businesses
20/03/2024
Scope 3 requirements for larger businesses mean small businesses may come into scope, even if they do not have direct climate reporting obligations.
ESG / Sustainability
BIS Demonstrates the Use of GenAI in Climate Risk Analysis
20/03/2024
Project Gaia delivered a platform that can extract data from corporate climate-related disclosures and generate harmonised metrics, despite differences in disclosure frameworks.
Capital / Liquidity
RBNZ Assesses Initial Impacts of New Bank Capital Framework
20/03/2024
All NZ banks met their capital requirements over the previous two years. Costs of capital broadly in line with initial estimates. No evidence of financial market disruptions.
Market Infrastructure
FSB Updates Guidance on Operational Continuity in Resolution
19/03/2024
A supplementary note was added to address today’s dependencies on third-party providers for critical shared services, and the digitalisation of such services.
Crypto / Digital Assets
FSS Korea Issues 2024 Virtual Asset Supervision Workplan
19/03/2024
The supervision work plan includes measures to support regulatory compliance by VASPs ahead of the Virtual Asset Users Protection Act coming into force on 19 July 2024.
Capital / Liquidity
APRA Paper Offers Justification for Lower IRB Risk Weights
18/03/2024
APRA explains why the difference in risk-weights for housing lending between IRB and standardised banks is appropriate.
Enforcement
CSRC Unveils New Policies for Boosting Stock Market Quality
18/03/2024
The policies tighten the rules for IPO applicants, increase oversight of listed companies, and impose obligations on brokers and investment banks.
Capital / Liquidity
SME Finance Guarantee Scheme Was a Success: HKMA Study
15/03/2024
The study used granular corporate loan data and a deep neural network model to analyse the effectiveness of the SFGS in facilitating access to credit for SMEs.
ESG / Sustainability
BIS Project to Address Scarcity of Scope 3 Data
15/03/2024
Project Symbiosis aims to address the lack of comprehensive emissions data from SMEs that are part of larger supply chains.
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