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
Market Infrastructure
SFC Issues New Guidance on Remote Working Risks
05/10/2021
The SFC describes incidents that occurred due to failures to split teams amid the pandemic, set up phone recording, and promptly isolate a server compromised by ransomware.
ESG / Sustainability
Singapore Established Green Bonds Programme Office
03/10/2021
The new office, under the Ministry of Finance, will help to catalyse sustainable finance and green investments, said minister Lawrence Wong.
Market Infrastructure
BNM Launches New Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform
03/10/2021
FinTIP leverages machine algorithms and human experts to correlate, normalise, enrich, and sanitise contributed data to produce “real-time actionable intelligence”.
AML / KYC
MAS to Deploy Information Sharing Platform for AML/CFT
03/10/2021
The COSMIC platform will be developed and deployed in phases. The initial participants are DBS, OCBC, UOB, StanChart, Citibank and HSBC.
Market Infrastructure
Hong Kong Capital Market to Increase Use of RMB
02/10/2021
HKMA chief Eddie Yue speaks of expanding the use of the RMB in Hong Kong stock market trading and a multi-year programme to enhance the CMU.
AML / KYC
NZ FMA Toughens Approach to AML Non-Compliance
30/09/2021
The FMA’s James Greig noted a lower tolerance for AML/CFT non-compliance, given the regime has been in place for eight years.
Market Infrastructure
ISDA to Change BSBY, Ameribor Fallback Language
30/09/2021
The FCA said the current fallback language for credit sensitive rates puts market participants at risk of breaching their obligations under BMR.
China Asks State-backed Firms to Buy Evergrande Assets – Report
29/09/2021
Government-owned firms and state-backed property developers have been asked to buy assets from Evergrande. Local governments have been asked to mediate.
Market Infrastructure
FCA Consults on Permitted Use of Synthetic LIBOR Rates
29/09/2021
The FCA proposes to permit legacy use of synthetic GBP and JPY LIBOR in all contracts except cleared derivatives for the duration of 2022.
Fintech / Regtech
Entity-based Regulation Needed to Address Bigtech Risks: BIS
29/09/2021
China’s financial holding company regime represents a novel entity-based regulatory approach for big techs, says a new BIS research paper.
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