In our latest Global Regulation Tomorrow Plus podcast, Matthew Gregory, Joe Bamford, Hishaam Khan and Anita Edwards discuss the first annual governing body report, and the governing body’s obligations with respect to it, under the FCA’s Consumer Duty rules. Firms are required to have prepared the report by 31 July 2024, and in this podcast
In the latest instalment of our Regulation Around the World series, Financial Services partners in over 10 jurisdictions review recent steps that financial services regulatory authorities have taken as regards investment research.
Our global updater is accompanied by further analysis and insights in our Regulation Around the World podcast which is available now to stream
On 29 April 2024, the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) published a Report on service level agreements for cross border payment arrangements, with recommendations and key features. The Report has been informed by a stocktake of existing cross-border arrangements and regular exchanges with practitioners.
The Report outlines the complexity of the
In our EMEA regulatory insights series colleagues from our EMEA offices provide an update on some of the key regulatory issues they are seeing in their local market. In this latest episode Etelka Bogardi from our Hong Kong office discusses recent regulatory developments including derivatives reporting, the e-HKD Pilot Programme and Hong Kong Green Week
Background
February was an important month in Hong Kong’s journey towards regulating the digital asset ecosystem and positioning itself as a leading innovation hub.
On 20 February 2024, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) published comprehensive guidance on the provision of digital asset custody services (Custodial Services Circular) and the sale
On 8 February 2023, the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB) launched a consultation on legislative proposals to introduce a licensing regime to regulate providers of over the counter (OTC) trading services for virtual assets (VAs) (the Consultation). The proposed licensing regime will be introduced by amending
Background
On 22 December 2023, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) issued an updated joint circular on intermediaries’ virtual asset-related activities (Joint Circular) with appendices. The Joint Circular supersedes the previous joint circular of 20 October 2023 (October Joint
In this latest episode of our EMEA regulatory insights series colleagues from Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore provide their thoughts and insights on what 2024 holds from a financial services regulatory perspective.
The podcast can be found here.
Our global funds and financial services and regulation teams have recently created a new publication called Global Asset Management Review which comprises of a series of articles from colleagues around the world designed to help clients and contacts keep up-to-date with key trends in the asset management industry. Click here to view it.
On 28 November 2023, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) published a report on the progress that 31 global systemically important banks have made in implementing the Basel Committee’s Principles for effective risk data aggregation and reporting (the Principles). Of the 31 banks assessed, only two banks are fully compliant