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29 April 2024

ASIA: South-east Asia poised for sustainable bond lift-off

While 2023 was a slowdown year for the sustainable bond market worldwide, the Asean+3 region (the 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus China, Japan and South Korea) slowed down less than most.

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29 April 2024

SINGAPORE: Singapore sees fewer new Chinese family offices after money-laundering crackdown

The influx of family offices handling money of Chinese origin has slowed in the wake of Singapore’s multibillion-dollar money-laundering scandal Tighter checks for new applicants are partly to blame

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29 April 2024

UK: UK urged to tighten defences against ‘dirty money’ after offshore data leak

The Government is facing fresh calls to tighten Britain’s defences against “dirty money” after a leak of offshore data exposed the secret financial dealings of some of the world’s richest and

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29 April 2024

CHINA: China temporarily exempts foreign firms from taxes for reinvested profits

China said on Thursday it will temporarily exempt foreign firms from paying provisional income tax on profits they re-invest into the economy, in a bid to stop foreign firms shifting their operations

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26 April 2024

White Paper Finds Fund Domiciles will be ‘Front and Centre’ of Tokenisation Trend

Press Release from Jersey Finance, Wednesday 24 April, 2024.  Asset managers can expect to feel the full impact of tokenisation before the end of this decade – but fund domiciles need to keep up

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26 April 2024

US: US institutions have withdrawn over $200 million from investment crypto products

CoinShares, a digital asset manager, reported that institutional investment in crypto products saw an outflow for the second week in a row. According to their latest report on digital asset fund flows,

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26 April 2024

AFRICA: South Africa’s Regulator Greenlights Crypto Asset Providers for Licensing

South Africa’s Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) has officially confirmed and detailed the list of crypto asset service providers (CASPs) currently approved to operate. The regulator announced

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26 April 2024

REGULATION: Half of EMEA firms think AML regulations need more clarity

Almost 50% of firms across Europe, the Middle East and Africa reported that anti-money laundering regulations were not clear or lacked an address of modern systems, according to PwC’s latest EMEA

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26 April 2024

TAX: World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers

The world’s 3,000 billionaires should pay a minimum 2% tax on their fast-growing wealth to raise £250bn a year for the global fight against poverty, inequality and global heating, ministers from

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26 April 2024

EU: New EU rules to combat money-laundering adopted

The European Parliament has adopted a package of laws strengthening the EU’s toolkit to fight money-laundering and terrorist financing. The new laws ensure that people with a legitimate interest,

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