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The recent scandal involving Danske Bank's Estonian branch has reopened old wounds - and put the spotlight back on regulators

In the US, British Virgin Islands-based O'Neal Webster opened a representative office in New York.

BNY Mellon's Susan Revell addresses some of the key regulatory themes that have affected the EU this year

The Commission’s proposal to introduce sovereign bond-backed securities fails to fully address their regulatory treatment as securitisations

Secondary loan market participants continue to grapple with who the customer is for anti-money laundering purposes

If his work at the Fed is anything to go by, Randal Quarles' appointment as chair of the Financial Stability Board could bring regulatory liberalisation to the many

It's nearly the end of a very active and exciting year for financial regulation, a year marked by the entry into force of the so-called alphabet soup: Priips, Mifid II and GDPR, to name a few.

The discovery of pre-salt reservoirs in Brazil dramatically increased the country's oil reserves. There was hope that oil would fund education, health, and infrastructure, but these hopes proved to be unfounded.

On July 6 2018, the 196th ordinary session of the Diet passed the Work Style Reform Act (Act) into law. The Act, which amends the Labour Standards Act (LSA) and other laws and regulations concerning working hours and annual paid leave, is intended to ensure that employees do not work long hours and enjoy a diverse work-life balance that suits their individual circumstances.

A law providing for the regulation and supervision of payment systems has been proposed and is now pending before the Philippine senate for transmission to the president for final approval (the House of Representatives adopted the Senate version of the bill as an amendment to the House version and this was transmitted to the Senate on October 3 2018). If the proposed law is passed in its existing form, it will grant the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) supervisory and regulatory authority over payment systems in the Philippines. The proposed law mandates the registration of payment system operators and limits those allowed to operate payment systems to persons and entities that obtain advance approval from the BSP.