Regulators and national authorities worry that companies may be unwittingly exposing themselves to significant risk by adopting cheaper Chinese-made AI tools or using available “open-source” software that may also rely heavily on Chinese AI.
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Posted inArtificial Intelligence
Hong Kong regulator sets accountability, resilience, trust rules for bank AI
Hong Kong’s banking regulator unveiled an AI framework focused on accountability, resilience and trust as financial institutions accelerate responsible artificial intelligence adoption.
Posted inInternal Investigations
Why global investigation playbooks create local legal exposure in China
A standard U.S. investigation playbook doesn’t travel cleanly into China. Data ownership, cross-border transfer, and employment law all work differently there. The message from investigators on the ground: run it the way headquarters runs everywhere else, and the investigation itself becomes the liability.
Posted inBest Practices
China’s chemical compliance rules reach deeper into manufacturers’ supply chains
China’s chemical compliance landscape is moving into a broader phase. For companies that manufacture, import, distribute, or use chemicals in China, compliance is increasingly about more than substance registration, as recent developments tie registration to hazardous-chemical operations and supply-chain responsibility.
Posted inAML
Vietnam’s AML rules require banks to trace owners beyond its borders
Vietnam has introduced temporary measures to strengthen its anti-money laundering framework. It requires financial institutions to collect and clarify how they identify beneficial owners.
Posted inSanctions
Why the rise of countersanctions is increasing compliance risks on multiple fronts
Compliance teams in global companies are already grappling with constantly evolving sanctions regimes in the US, UK, and EU. Now, they must also watch countersanctions emerging in countries including Russia and China.
Posted inAsia
China’s draft Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law adds compliance burden on foreign companies
China’s draft Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law seeks to prevent and punish cross-border corruption, cracking down on corruption conducted across borders, both domestic companies bribing foreign officials and foreign companies bribing officials in China.
Posted inBest Practices
China’s “Mythos moment” is coming. Its release gate is already built.
China’s “Mythos moment” is coming. Its release gate is already built. Washington spent June 2026 governing Mythos-level models for the first time: Systems whose autonomous cyber and agentic capabilities register as national security consequences. The label borrows from Anthropic’s Mythos 5, restricted that month; the government’s attention also reached OpenAI’s GPT-5.6. No Chinese lab has […]
Posted inRegulators
FCA appoints attachés to India, UAE as part of effort to boost U.K. financial services
The U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority has appointed two financial services attachés in India and the UAE to help boost the regulator’s presence in key global financial markets and to drive investment into the UK economy.
Posted inAsia
Singapore’s AML framework has a gap against financial crime, FATF finds
Singapore performs well on detecting and prosecuting financial crime, according to a new FATF and APG report, but enforcement still struggles to target the organizers behind its growing cyber-fraud problem.