08/13/2021
Linklaters advises Bank of China
Bank of China, through its London and Hong Kong SAR branches, priced £300m 2-year SONIA Index bonds and US$500m 3-year SOFR Index bonds, respectively.
08/13/2021
A key objective for the CSRC is to improve the administration and “effectiveness” of institutional supervision, which it says should be scientific, professional, and continuous.
08/13/2021
Participants should also ensure end clients understand the settlement mechanism and risk involved in the new products, and effectively communicate the differences between Options on Index and OOF products.
08/13/2021
The Court declared the unfair terms void from the start of the contracts and ordered that the unfair terms be replaced with new, fair terms agreed by the parties.
08/13/2021
China expands anti-money laundering obligations
The new Measures are a significant development, demonstrating China's efforts to improve and enhance its anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) regime.
08/13/2021
Carey Olsen pair named as top offshore litigators in Asia
Lawyers were selected based on the profile of their cases, client recommendations, and feedback from the market.
08/12/2021
The benefits will increase over time as consumer outcomes become the focus and experience accrues.
08/12/2021
The revised approach followed a review of APRA’s ADI licensing regime aimed at incorporating learnings since the launch of the Restricted ADI licensing pathway in 2018.
08/12/2021
ARS 720.1 currently collects data on impaired exposures, which will no longer be used in APS 220
08/12/2021
ASIC is seeking winding up and disqualification orders and the appointment of liquidators and receivers to secure assets of the alleged scheme.
08/12/2021
The ALB Hong Kong Law Awards are the pre-eminent legal awards in Asia and honour the outstanding performance of private practitioners and in-house teams in the region.
08/11/2021
Reserve Bank warns Westpac over anti-money laundering system failures
This formal warning reflects the importance of the prescribed transaction reporting regime in building an intelligence picture across New Zealand’s financial system
08/11/2021
ASIC would shortly publish a document which provided a high-level summary of key issues raised in the submissions and provides public transparency of the issues raised in response to CP 322;
08/11/2021
Brockman noted the vast majority of people working in the financial advice industry did not act in a way that the “many egregious ones did”.
08/11/2021
After profit margins slimmed and a raft of advice scandals came to light in the early 2010
08/09/2021
The Better Advice Bill passed the House of Representatives on 4 August, 2021, which aimed to legislate Recommendation 2.10 of the Royal Commission to establish a new disciplinary system for financial advisers.
08/09/2021
"He will be fired and never be rehired. Whether he has committed rape or indecency that violates the law will be determined by law enforcement."
08/09/2021
ASIC works with AFCA to identify financial services licensees and credit licensees that do not comply with their general conduct obligations.
08/09/2021
In July this year, police received a report of an alleged multimillion-dollar fraud against a financial organisation.
08/09/2021
Ms. Wendy Lam – Women in Law Awards 2021 by Lawyer Monthly Magazine