Manesh Samtani
Manesh Samtani is Editor at Regulation Asia, where he leads the editorial and research teams from Hong Kong. His work examines how regulatory change and technology are reshaping banking and financial markets, with a particular focus on digital assets, financial crime and sanctions. Manesh is a former securities industry practitioner and holds a bachelor's degree in finance and banking. [email protected]
Articles by Manesh Samtani
Tokenisation
Hong Kong: Prototype Created to Issue Electronic Bills of Lading
21/03/2024
The eBL prototype, developed by GSBN and Ant Group, is being used in the HKMA’s wholesale CBDC sandbox project.
DeFi & Web3
OECD Assesses DeFi’s Role in ASEAN to Promote Financial Inclusion
20/03/2024
Innovation associated with DeFi, provided in a regulated and compliant form, could offer possible financial inclusion benefits such as in MSME financing.
Climate Risk
ASIC to Develop Climate Reporting Guidance for Small Businesses
20/03/2024
Scope 3 requirements for larger businesses mean small businesses may come into scope, even if they do not have direct climate reporting obligations.
Climate Risk
BIS Demonstrates the Use of GenAI in Climate Risk Analysis
20/03/2024
Project Gaia delivered a platform that can extract data from corporate climate-related disclosures and generate harmonised metrics, despite differences in disclosure frameworks.
Capital Adequacy
RBNZ Assesses Initial Impacts of New Bank Capital Framework
20/03/2024
All NZ banks met their capital requirements over the previous two years. Costs of capital broadly in line with initial estimates. No evidence of financial market disruptions.
Resolution & Recovery
FSB Updates Guidance on Operational Continuity in Resolution
19/03/2024
A supplementary note was added to address today’s dependencies on third-party providers for critical shared services, and the digitalisation of such services.
Cryptocurrency
FSS Korea Issues 2024 Virtual Asset Supervision Workplan
19/03/2024
The supervision work plan includes measures to support regulatory compliance by VASPs ahead of the Virtual Asset Users Protection Act coming into force on 19 July 2024.
Credit Risk
APRA Paper Offers Justification for Lower IRB Risk Weights
18/03/2024
APRA explains why the difference in risk-weights for housing lending between IRB and standardised banks is appropriate.
Structural Regulation
CSRC Unveils New Policies for Boosting Stock Market Quality
18/03/2024
The policies tighten the rules for IPO applicants, increase oversight of listed companies, and impose obligations on brokers and investment banks.
Credit Risk
SME Finance Guarantee Scheme Was a Success: HKMA Study
15/03/2024
The study used granular corporate loan data and a deep neural network model to analyse the effectiveness of the SFGS in facilitating access to credit for SMEs.
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