Financial Services Agency

AML / KYC

Australia Signals Currency Status, AML Clampdown for Bitcoin

By Samuel Riding | 21/08/2017

Cryptocurrency to be brought under AUSTRAC; proposal to follow Japan in giving bitcoin legal tender status being considered by central bank.

Securities / Derivatives

Japanese Brokers Face Scrutiny of Information Controls

By Editors | 24/07/2017

Securities Dealers Association aims to ensure brokerage managers who are also investment bankers don’t reveal inside information. The new chief […]

AML / KYC

Japan FSA Probing AML Compliance at Regional Banks

By Editors | 12/07/2017

Regulator concerned rules introduced last October are not being executed consistently as regional and other smaller banks deal with increasing number of international transactions.

Japan Finalises Stewardship Code

By Samuel Riding | 31/05/2017

Final version of non-legally binding code includes several new principles for institutional investors.

AML / KYC

Japan FSA Anticipates ‘C2B’ Banking System

By Samuel Riding | 31/05/2017

Commissioner Nobuchika Mori suggests fintech will facilitate provision of ‘bespoke products to mass customers’.

Japan Regulator Cites Broker for Spoofing

By Samuel Riding | 20/03/2017

Regulator says Virgin-islands registered broker manipulated four stocks.

Market Infrastructure

MAS Enters Japan Fintech Partnership

By Samuel Riding | 15/03/2017

Japan recently forged fintech link with UK; regulatory agreements over past 12 month belie talk of ‘economic nationalism’.

Capital / Liquidity

Japan to Audit Regional Banks’ Foreign Debt Exposure

By Samuel Riding | 09/03/2017

Probe will also look at senior management involvement in decisions of asset management units.

AML / KYC

Indonesia to Issue CSR Circular by end-March

By Samuel Riding | 06/03/2017

Circular will be followed in May by ‘regulation in lieu of law’ to scrap banking secrecy.