Last Friday, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) launched a consultation on proposals to regulate depositaries (trustees and custodians) of SFC-authorized...

Following the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering's inspection of Hong Kong in October and November 2018, their much anticipated

On 11 July 2016, the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (CFA) in HKSAR v. Yeung Ka Shing Carson, FACC Nos. 5 and 6 of 2015, dismissed Mr. Yeung's appeal against his conviction of five counts of "dealing with property known or believed to represent the proceeds of an indictable offence", or simply "money laundering", contrary to Section 25(1) of the Organized and Serious Crime Ordinance (OSCO).

The head of the UK's Serious Fraud Office has proposed a change to the Bribery Act 2010 (the "Act"), seeking broader powers to get tough with corporations that fail to prevent their staff from committing financial crimes.

Whilst the Taiwanese authorities’ investigations into possible insider dealing in securities on the part of family members of President Chen have caused widespread political instability on the Island, it is noteworthy that in Hong Kong insider dealing is both a civil wrong and a crime under the Securities and Futures Ordinance ("SFO").