Other Asia Pacific

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    Vietnam Brokerage Resumes Trading Following Week Long Outage

    By Editors | 02/04/2024

    Vietnam’s third-largest securities broker was disconnected from the market for six days due to a cyber attack by international hackers.

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    Securities / Derivatives

    Bangladesh Extends Deadline for Higher Provisions on Unrealised Losses

    By Ajoy K Das | 01/04/2024

    The extension was granted in response to fears that provisioning requirements based on the International Accounting Standards could lead to forced selling in the market.

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    ESG / Sustainability

    ASEAN Releases Version 3 of Sustainable Finance Taxonomy

    By Editors | 31/03/2024

    Version 3 introduces TSC for two more focus sectors, namely transportation & storage and construction & real estate.

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    ESG / Sustainability

    Gprnt, Ant International Partner to Support MSME Sustainability Reporting

    By Ranamita Chakraborty | 28/03/2024

    The partnership is part of a new industry initiative known as ‘Programme Sirius’, which aims to help MSMEs in their transition towards sustainability.

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    Capital / Liquidity

    APAC Banking Sector Well-prepared for Basel III Adoption: Fitch

    By Ranamita Chakraborty | 26/03/2024

    APAC banking groups are well-prepared due to prevailing conservative regulatory approaches and less extensive use of internal models within the region.

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    Fintech / Regtech

    Vietnam Central Bank Proposes to Introduce Regulatory Sandbox

    By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 22/03/2024

    The SBV will develop a fintech regulatory sandbox fintech for innovations relating credit scoring, open API and P2P lending.

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    Securities / Derivatives

    First Commodity Exchange Licence Granted in Bangladesh

    By Ajoy K Das | 21/03/2024

    Chittagong Stock Exchange will establish Bangladesh’s first commodity exchange, initially offering cash-settled gold, cotton and crude oil derivatives contracts.

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    ESG / Sustainability

    ACMF Progresses Work on Sustainable Capital Markets Roadmap

    By Ranamita Chakraborty | 20/03/2024

    About 90% of the Roadmap will be complete within this year. A key achievement has been the development of Version 2 of the ASEAN Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance.

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    Capital / Liquidity

    Bangladesh Introduces Strict Measures Targeting Wilful Defaulters

    By Ajoy K Das | 14/03/2024

    Wilful defaulters will not be allowed to travel, secure trade licences, register companies, or serve as a director of any financial institution.

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    AML / KYC

    Use of AI for AML Could Lower Effectiveness: Report

    By Bradley Maclean | 14/03/2024

    A new report from NICE Actimize and Regulation Asia sheds light on APAC’s use of technology to fight financial crime.

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