2016 – Quinlan & Associates

Sumo-Sized Lending

webadmin — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 19:28:05 +0000

The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) severely impacted the manner in which banks carried out their activities. A host of regulatory initiatives aimed at improving the soundness and stability of the financial services industry meant that the ‘status quo’ was no longer a feasible option for many international players. Faced with significant write-downs, capital shortfalls and liquidity constraints…

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From KYC To KYT

webadmin — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 19:32:10 +0000

Correspondent banking relationships have long been used to facilitate cross-border transactions. They have been particularly important for international payments, as well as a bank’s own access to offshore financial systems as a means to source products and services that are unavailable in its home jurisdiction. While banks have traditionally maintained very broad networks of correspondent banking…

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Sino-Foreign Securities Joint Ventures

webadmin — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 19:34:35 +0000

From the early 2000s, what was seen as the unstoppable rise of the Chinese economy and stock markets meant that any international brokerage firm or bank with global aspirations saw a need to be on the mainland. Coupled with China’s commitment to financial market liberalisation as part of its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001, this paved the way for foreign investment banks to…

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Research In An Unbundled World

webadmin — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 19:37:48 +0000

On 7 April 2016, the European Commission (EC) published the first of a series of long-anticipated delegated acts, designed to provide detailed guidance on the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA’s) final report on the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR). According to the EC, the overarching aim of the…

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