Reform
Crypto-crime: The new risks of financial crime in the time of cryptoassets
13 June 2018 - Vincent Liu
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (the FCA) has turned its attention to the prospective criminal dangers of cryptoassets in a letter addressed to the CEOs of the banking industry. This letter follows the FCA’s response to a freedom of information request in May that revealed the financial regulator is investigating 24 businesses that deal with › Read More
Singapore: Adding to the alphabet soup of accountability regimes
08 June 2018 - Shuhui Kwok
Australia has its BEAR (Banking Executive Accountability Regime), Hong Kong its MCR and MAI (Manager-in-Charge Regime and Management Accountability Initiative) and the UK its SMCR (Senior Managers and Certification Regime). To this alphabet soup of accountability regimes will be added Singapore’s Guidelines on Individual Accountability and Conduct (Guidelines). Financial institutions doing business in two or › Read More
29 May 2018 - Edward Einfeld
The new Chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), James Shipton, has welcomed the work of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry (Financial Services Royal Commission) and noted that many of the matters that have been raised have already been, or continue to be, the subject › Read More
Mind your step: Hong Kong SFC warns of cryptocurrency and ICO risks
26 February 2018 - Jeffrey Huang
Hong Kong has not followed China and other jurisdictions in effectively banning cryptocurrency trading and initial coin offerings (ICOs). However, the government and regulators are monitoring developments to guard against efforts to circumvent regulatory requirements in pursuit of market protection. The potential risks and related regulatory concerns relating to cryptocurrency exchanges and investing in ICOs › Read More
21 February 2018 - Edward Einfeld
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP), the Australian government agencies responsible for investigating and prosecuting foreign bribery, have recently released joint best practice guidelines that indicate how they will approach self-reporting of foreign bribery and related offences by corporations (the Guidelines). The Guidelines seek to provide greater clarity › Read More