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HKMA advances its AI-driven financial crime agenda, issuing guidance to accelerate bank’s adoption of AI across AML/CFT, fraud detection, sanctions screening, and risk management

by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Jun 22, 2026

The guidance highlights the potential of AI to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and accuracy of financial crime controls while setting out key principles for governance, risk management, data quality, model oversight, and human accountability. It forms part of...

HKMA publishes a Thematic Review of Sanctions Screening Systems, highlighting banks’ strengths, best practices, exposing gaps, and setting standards to boost anti-fraud, AML, & FC defences

by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Mar 16, 2026

It highlights areas where systems are performing well, identifies common deficiencies, and shares good practices for strengthening controls. The guidance sets clear regulatory expectations for maintaining, monitoring, and enhancing sanctions screening processes, while...

CBUAE and HKMA deepen financial cooperation and market connectivity, focusing on cross-border debt markets, digital assets, tokenisation, digital currencies, stablecoin oversight, and supply chain finance

by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Feb 12, 2026

A key outcome is the CBUAE’s formal membership in Hong Kong’s Central Moneymarkets Unit (CMU), the city’s core debt securities depository, giving UAE investors direct and cost‑effective access to Chinese Mainland capital markets via Hong Kong’s infrastructure and...

HKMA launches a Fintech Promotion Blueprint under its Fintech 2030 strategy, advancing AI-driven banking innovation, distributed-ledger technology, stronger data governance, and cyber-resilience

by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Feb 3, 2026

The plan includes four flagship initiatives a Quantum Preparedness Index, a new risk-data strategy, a fintech cybersecurity baseline, and industry-wide skills development support designed to strengthen risk management, supervision, and collaboration across Hong Kong’s...

Hong Kong regulators strengthen collaboration to tackle increasingly sophisticated fraud, combining supervision, data-protection oversight, and public awareness efforts to enhance banks’ resilience

by AdrianaAMLP | Jan 27, 2026

HKMA and the Privacy Commissioner announced enhanced cooperation to assess and improve banks’ anti-fraud systems and data security controls, with HKMA focusing on the effective implementation of anti-fraud measures and the PCPD reviewing personal data protection...

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HKMA advances its AI-driven financial crime agenda, issuing guidance to accelerate bank’s adoption of AI across AML/CFT, fraud detection, sanctions screening, and risk management

HKMA publishes a Thematic Review of Sanctions Screening Systems, highlighting banks’ strengths, best practices, exposing gaps, and setting standards to boost anti-fraud, AML, & FC defences

CBUAE and HKMA deepen financial cooperation and market connectivity, focusing on cross-border debt markets, digital assets, tokenisation, digital currencies, stablecoin oversight, and supply chain finance

HKMA launches a Fintech Promotion Blueprint under its Fintech 2030 strategy, advancing AI-driven banking innovation, distributed-ledger technology, stronger data governance, and cyber-resilience

Hong Kong regulators strengthen collaboration to tackle increasingly sophisticated fraud, combining supervision, data-protection oversight, and public awareness efforts to enhance banks’ resilience

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