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Know Your GDPR: self-reporting and enforcement considerations for contentious regulatory lawyers
14 June 2018 Stacey McEvoy
With the recent implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation, many financial services institutions are asking themselves what it may mean from a more traditional financial services regulatory perspective, particularly in terms of firms’ ever-present reporting obligations. A&O has recently published a detailed guide to the GDPR for Litigators which deals with questions relating to › Read More
Crypto-crime: The new risks of financial crime in the time of cryptoassets
13 June 2018 Vincent Liu
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (the FCA) has turned its attention to the prospective criminal dangers of cryptoassets in a letter addressed to the CEOs of the banking industry. This letter follows the FCA’s response to a freedom of information request in May that revealed the financial regulator is investigating 24 businesses that deal with › Read More
Singapore: Adding to the alphabet soup of accountability regimes
08 June 2018 Shuhui Kwok
Australia has its BEAR (Banking Executive Accountability Regime), Hong Kong its MCR and MAI (Manager-in-Charge Regime and Management Accountability Initiative) and the UK its SMCR (Senior Managers and Certification Regime). To this alphabet soup of accountability regimes will be added Singapore’s Guidelines on Individual Accountability and Conduct (Guidelines). Financial institutions doing business in two or › Read More
29 May 2018 Edward Einfeld
The new Chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), James Shipton, has welcomed the work of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry (Financial Services Royal Commission) and noted that many of the matters that have been raised have already been, or continue to be, the subject › Read More
Whistleblower update: SEC & CFTC programs busy in 2018
26 April 2018 Kurt Wolfe
It has been a busy year for the SEC and CFTC whistleblower programs. From time to time, we like to update our readers on key whistleblower developments in the U.S., and there have been a number of noteworthy developments this year that warrant a closer look. As discussed below, already in 2018, the U.S. Supreme › Read More