In this latest podcast of our EMEA regulatory insights series Lucinda McCann from our Sydney office discusses APRA’s recently announced governance review and ASIC’s report ‘Beware the gap: Governance arrangements in the face of AI innovations’.
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We have also published a briefing note on APRA’s governance review.
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On 13 March 2025, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) issued a press release following its virtual meeting.
At the meeting, the Basel Committee discussed a range of initiatives including the following:
On 12 March 2025, the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) issued a consultation report on neo-brokers.
Neo-brokers are a subset of brokers, characterized by providing online-only investment services and by the absence of physical operating branches, thereby using technology to facilitate those services and access to financial markets. Neo-brokers have very limited
On 12 March 2025, the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) issued a new consultation report on artificial intelligence (AI) in capital markets.
The purpose of the consultation report is to create a shared understanding among IOSCO members of the issues, risks and challenges that emerging AI technologies used in financial
In this latest episode of Global Regulation Tomorrow Plus Elisa de Wit, Vittorio Casamento and Simon Lovegrove explore the carbon market generally and then discuss the Australian financial services regime for carbon credits and when to apply for an AFS licence.
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On 26 February 2025, the Financial Action task Force (FATF) issued a public consultation seeking input on best practices in mitigating proliferation financing risks. The consultation is intended to help FATF produce a report that will improve country and private sector understanding of current proliferation financing risks. This will cover the evasion techniques
This article was co-authored with Michele Beck, Tom Clark, Masooma Saberi, Hasan Mohammad and Vivian Truong.
Between November 2024 and January 2025, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) released draft guidance for the new sustainability reporting regime, as well as guidance on the financial Advisor reforms in the Treasury Laws Amendments (Delivering Better Financial
On 21 February 2025, the Wolfsberg Group published:
On 21 February 2025, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) announced that it was conducting a thematic peer review that will take stock of the progress made and planned by its members (and certain non-members) in implementing the FSB Crypto Framework.
The primary source of information for the peer review will be responses to
On 11 February 2025, the Bank of International Settlements published a speech by Denis Beau, First Deputy Governor of the Bank of France, at the Cercle IA et finance.
In his speech Mr Denis discusses, from a supervisor’s perspective, the opportunities and risks of AI and then the conditions necessary for effective regulation of AI