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Asia Regulatory Update (June 2026)

The second quarter of 2026 was active across all three jurisdictions covered in this edition: Hong Kong; China; and Singapore. In Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) ran…

Helen Dawit22 Jun, 2026

Distributed Ledger Technology Fixed Income Insights

Smart Bonds Supplementing Traditional Bond Markets

The conventional issuance and trading of debt securities has largely remained unchanged for decades. However, the advent of blockchain technology has brought about a new fixed income instrument known as…

Helen Dawit26 Jun, 2025

Insights Middle Office

Identity Verification in the Digital Era

In 2025, increasing numbers of Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs), traditional banks and brokerages with digital frontends rely on online customer onboarding, the cornerstone of which is Identity Verification (IDV).…

Helen Dawit9 May, 2025

Insights Middle Office

Integrated Trader Surveillance – Identifying the Asymptote

Surveillance – specifically trader surveillance – in financial services institutions remains an area of focus for Compliance professionals in 2023. Generally comprising a combination of trade and communications (voice and…

Helen Dawit18 Apr, 2023

Digital Assets Insights Middle Office Regtech

Regulatory Aspects of Trading Digital Assets

Few parts of the world have embraced virtual assets like Asia. Indeed, the region has some of the highest adoption and growth rates for cryptocurrency, which has left regional regulators…

Helen Dawit13 Mar, 2023

Insights Middle Office Regtech

Operational Resilience Regulation: Why Multinationals Must Take a Group-wide Approach

Since 2008, economic shock after shock focused regulators on initiatives to shore up the overall resilience of financial firms and reduce the impact of systemic interdependencies. Regulation dedicated to ensuring…

Helen Dawit15 Jul, 2022

Insights Regtech

Non-face-to-face KYC Procedures in Financial Institutions in Singapore & Hong Kong

Traditionally, account opening processes in a financial institution required face-to-face contact between the financial institution’s onboarding team and the prospective client. However, as demand from investors for non-face-to-face (NFTF) onboarding…

Helen Dawit17 Feb, 2022

Smart Bonds Supplementing Traditional Bond Markets

Identity Verification in the Digital Era

Integrated Trader Surveillance – Identifying the Asymptote

Regulatory Aspects of Trading Digital Assets

Operational Resilience Regulation: Why Multinationals Must Take a Group-wide Approach

Non-face-to-face KYC Procedures in Financial Institutions in Singapore & Hong Kong

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