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How to open a bank account in Thailand
Opening a bank account has different challenges the world over. Some institutions in certain jurisdictions make the process needlessly complicated, others are free to adopt a more ‘old-fashioned’...
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Australia – Regulation holding financial services back from exports
Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden has blamed “out-dated” regulation and taxation for Australia’s failure to effectively export its financial services business. In the FSC’s...
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Beijing grapples with internet finance industry
China is attempting to take a firmer grip of its internet finance industry following a proliferation of companies offering services. Internet finance refers to services including online wealth...
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NZ: Are regulations hampering growth?
Banks in New Zealand are feeling the effects of regulatory creep. Financial institutions are concerned that the “green shoots” of growth will be cut short by more regulatory reform. Counterparts in...
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Seychelles’ New FSA To Regulate Offshore Financial Sector
On March 1, 2014, under The Financial Services Authority Act 2013, the Seychelles International Business Authority (SIBA) changed its name to the Financial Services Authority (FSA), and became the...
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Infographic: the US financial sector in 19 years, from 37 to 4
Four banks dominate the US banking sector; they have developed out of a group of 37 individual institutions that operated in 1990. Sources: Federal Reserve, GAO, Collated by Exposing the Truth This...
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Planned changes to UAE regulations
The days of transactional financial advice with a one-size-fits-all approach will soon be consigned to history James Thomas, ACUMA — Independent Financial Advice Regulation — hardly the most emotive...
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#Bitcoin: US issues proposed regulations to mixed responses
Well, not mixed from the Bitcoin side of things. Dangerous, problematic, ridiculous, insane, absurd, Orwellian and archaic are just a few of the adjectives bandying around the comments under Benjamin...
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How much do APAC’s regulators earn?
Regulators’ salaries across Asia Pacific vary enormously:some supervisors earn fortunes and others hit the pay scale at the average to low end. Some governments believe that paying politicians and...
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Are common sense and the risk based approach mutually exclusive?
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the financial services regulator, has issued a statement asking banks to use ‘judgement and common sense‘ when applying a risk based approach to anti-money...
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