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Market Infrastructure
Hong Kong Institutions Must Start to Tackle EU Data Protection Rules
By Justine Laprun | 16/11/2017
The European General Data Protection Regulation should already be one of the next items on institutions’ agendas, according to Sia Partners.
Capital / Liquidity
When Deposit Insurance Isn’t Insurance
By Peter Guy | 06/11/2017
Calls for EU wide deposit insurance are supposed to herald banking union. But regulatory enforcement, national policies and financial technology stand in the way.
Capital / Liquidity
FSB Reports on ‘Rise of the Financial Machines’, Backs Regtech
By Samuel Riding | 02/11/2017
Report suggests AI and machine learning could create new systemically important players, warns on opacity, audit difficulty.
Capital / Liquidity
BCBS Gives Banks Just 2.5 Years to Work-out Step-in Risk
By Editors | 26/10/2017
Step-in risk guidelines due to be implemented by 2020 will require reporting rather than additional liquidity or capital charges.
BCBS Set to Finalise Last Two Elements of Global Policy Agenda
By Editors | 16/10/2017
BCBS secretary general tells IMF it will publish step-in risk guidelines next month, leaving capital output floor as final element of policy agenda.
Market Infrastructure
US, Europe Agree Margin Requirement, Trading Venue ‘Comparability’
By Editors | 16/10/2017
Swap dealers or major market participants subject to EC margin rules can assume ‘substituted compliance’ when dealing in US.
AML / KYC
Communication Breakdown
By Peter Guy | 09/10/2017
WhatsApp et al have widened a grey area in compliance rival financial messaging services are trying to exploit.
Fintech / Regtech
CPMI, IOSCO Call for Uniformity in UPI Creation, Reporting
By Editors | 02/10/2017
Report proposes that each UPI maps to reference data which indirectly describes an OTCD product without identifying transaction details.
Fintech / Regtech
DLT Not Yet a Solution for Large Central Bank Applications – BOJ
By Samuel Riding | 11/09/2017
Japanese central bank and European counterpart conclude from ‘Project Stella’ tests of DLT in RTGS that the technology is not yet mature enough.
Capital / Liquidity
Don’t Expect New EU Equivalency Decisions for Asia
By Samuel Riding | 07/09/2017
Ben Pott, head of government affairs at NEX Group, suggests Brexit and the time taken to resolve US-EU CCP issue, make equivalency rulings unlikely.
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