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It’s been an eventful year in Financial Services risk and compliance across the globe. From record enforcement levels to market disruptions to evolving regulations around emerging risks like digital assets and crypto, developments have been coming at compliance professionals at a fast and furious pace.

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Europe has been at the forefront regarding crypto assets regulation with its recently voted Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation, which is expected to be finalised in the first quarter of 2023.  

Temperatures are hot across the Unites States right now – and so is U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement activity. The end of July has seen the SEC file multiple insider trading actions against a former chief information security officer, an investment banker, a former FBI trainee, a former U.S. Congressman and a former crypto employee.

The actions reinforced the agency’s focus on insider trading and MNPI, and also raised some questions about the definition of a security and the scope of the agency’s oversight of the crypto space.

The SEC’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs recently released the Spring 2022 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. The report provides an update on the short and long-term regulatory actions that the agency plans to take.

I recently had the privilege of speaking on the sessionRegTech Adoption – The Way Forward at the 2022 ASIFMA Compliance Asia Conference as part of a panel of industry experts. The conference featured three half-days of info-packed sessions that covered the latest compliance issues and emerging regulatory trends.