China’s financial regulatory revamp raises hope
A new Chinese financial watchdog will help bridge regulatory gaps but analysts and investors say the agency will consolidate power at the top and could introduce more state and party…
Council of financial regulators
`Thirty years of experience is not the same as experience of one year multiplied thirty times` Anonymous AT times we forget the consequences of events once we move away from…
Airbus faces financial bill after end-year delivery crunch
Airbus is counting the cost of last-minute financial concessions to airlines to overcome a spate of minor quality problems after scrambling to deliver a provisional 123 jets in December, industry…
How the ADR tax distorts the financial sector
The tax on Advance-to-Deposit Ratio (ADR) was introduced through the Finance Acts of 2021 and 2022 approved by Pakistan’s National Assembly and these provisions are being enforced by the Federal…
Regulator, ministry to support medical students enrolled abroad
The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) and the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination (NHSRC) have announced an initiative announce a new initiative aimed at supporting Pakistani…
In the Market: How regulators are using banks to illuminate shadow banks
The Federal Reserve has proposed new rules that would allow it to gather granular details about banks’ exposure to shadow banks, a move that shows how regulators are trying to…
Universities and the financial tightrope
In an oped in these pages a few weeks earlier (‘Defunding of public higher education’, March 29), I wrote about the review conducted by the Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC)…
SDG 16 & financial crimes: challenges
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels— Sustainable Development Goal 16, United Nations…
Wall Street heads to court to fend off Biden’s regulators
Facing a wave of new rules and encouraged by a sympathetic judiciary, US financial firms and their trade groups are growing bolder about fighting Democratic President Joe Biden’s regulators in…
Empowering financial inclusion
Decentralised Finance (DeFi) is a pioneering force, making breakthroughs in the field of finance and revolutionising the centrally dependent financial sector. It has already made a difference in several countries…
