Australia

Enforcement

ASIC Directs Fund Managers to Correct Product Mislabelling

By Editors | 22/09/2020

ASIC has identified 14 funds using the term ‘cash’ in their names in a confusing and inappropriate way, and 3 others with a significant liquidity mismatch.

Big Picture

A New Zero Tolerance Era for ESG Reporting

By Editors | 22/09/2020

As nations across the globe come to terms with understanding and tackling climate change, mandatory reporting of such risks across capital markets could well become the norm.

AML / KYC

Australian Banks Flagged in SARs from FinCEN Files

By Editors | 21/09/2020

Among the potentially suspicious transactions were more than $174mn of possibly illicit funds that flowed through Australian banks.

Capital / Liquidity

Stress Tests Reinforce Need for More Bank Capital: RBNZ

By Manesh Samtani | 19/09/2020

While all banks will be able to continue lending in a ‘pessimistic baseline’ scenario, capital would fall under regulatory minimums in a ‘very severe’ scenario.

Fintech / Regtech

GCRA: Little More Than Acting the Part

By Tamara Scicluna | 18/09/2020

We need real-time insights into cultural drivers of behaviour rather than backward-looking surveillance systems designed to catch bad actors after-the-fact.

Capital / Liquidity

APRA Proposes Updates to Bank Liquidity Reporting Requirements

By Editors | 17/09/2020

APRA has identified areas where reporting instructions can be clarified to facilitate the provision of timely information on bank liquidity risk.

Securities / Derivatives

ASX Revises Temporary Emergency Capital Raising Measures

By Editors | 17/09/2020

To use the emergency capital raising measures, companies must now satisfy ASX that they are raising capital predominantly to address a Covid-19 related impact.

AML / KYC

AUSTRAC Fines State Street Over IFTI Reporting Breaches

By Editors | 16/09/2020

State Street Bank and Trust failed to report IFTIs on 99 occasions. There is no suggestion that the transactions were suspicious or that there were CDD deficiencies.

Fintech / Regtech

BNP, Digital Asset to Develop DLT Connectivity to ASX, HKEX

By Editors | 15/09/2020

BNP Paribas Securities Services and Digital Asset have joined forces to design real-time trade and settlement apps using DAML smart contracts.