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The Securities & Futures Commission of Hong Kong (SFC) issues a 6-month ban on a trader for concealing a significant trade execution error and only reporting the incident to management and compliance 4 days later.

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has imposed a lifetime ban on a former Associate Director of a multinational investment bank and financial services company from re-entering the city’s financial industry.

APRA and ASIC hosted Superannuation CEO Roundtables in June and July 2024, focusing on a central theme of “superannuation funds as investors of members’ money”.

A former financial adviser and director of a financial institution (FI) in Brisbane, Australia, has been sentenced to 12 years imprisonment with parole eligibility after six years, including the 977 days of pre-sentence custody declared as time already served.

Singapore’s Parliament has passed the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Other Matters Bill, a crucial step in enhancing the nation’s defences against financial crimes. The Bill, introduced by Singapore’s Second Minister for Home Affairs, Josephine Teo, is designed to strengthen the country’s anti-money laundering (AML) framework, ensuring it keeps pace with global standards set by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Teo explains during her second reading of the Bill, “We have been distilling the learning points through careful studies of the changing modus operandi, as well as the new standards promulgated by FATF.”