Australia has become the latest country to announce it is drawing up plans for mandatory ESG reporting by financial institutions and corporates. A consultation plan was issued by the government Treasury, with a framework proposal expected and a phased implementation from 2024. It follows similar announcements this year by the US and UK.
Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) regulation, a set of proposals from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) for a new market risk-related capital requirement for banks, is due to be implemented across APAC over the next few years. Singapore and Japan, by way of example, have set implementation deadlines in 2024, while...
US resistance to sustainability disclosure at state and federal level is widening the regulatory gap for US-domiciled firms operating internationally. In March 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to end its defence of federal climate-disclosure rules. In December 2025, the White House issued an executive order targeting proxy advisers accused of promoting ESG...
Buy AND Build: The Future of Capital Markets Technology London examines the latest changes and innovations in trading technology and explores how technology is being deployed to create an edge in sell side and buy side capital markets financial institutions.
Valuations and pricing teams are facing a much higher degree of scrutiny from both the regulatory community and the investor community in the glare of the post-crisis data transparency spotlight. Fair value price transparency requirements and the gradual move towards a more harmonised accounting standards environment is set within the context of the whole debate...