Regulatory Ramblings

About Regulatory Ramblings

Welcome to Regulatory Ramblings, a podcast from the HKU FinTech team at The University of Hong Kong on the intersection of all things pertaining to finance, technology, law and regulation. Hosted by The Reg/Tech Lab, HKU-Standard Chartered FinTech Academy, Asia Global Institute and the HKU-edX Professional Certificate in FinTech, with support from the HKU Faculty of Law. Join us as we hear from luminaries across multiple fields and professions as they share their candid thoughts in a stress-free environment - rather than the soundbites one typically hears from the mainstream press.

Publisher

Reg/Tech Lab - HKU-SCF FinTech Academy - Asia Global Institute - HKU-edX Professional Certificate in FinTech

Category

business · government · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 May 2022

Latest episode

24 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

48 of 94 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   24 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Ep 85 - Advancing the Impact Investing Framework + The Social Dimension of CBDCs

   Featuring Professor Dirk Zetzsche, Marian Unterstell, and Dr. Lucien van Romburg 🎧 In this episode, Regulatory Ramblings explores two major themes shaping the future of financial regulation: retail CBDCs and their social dimensions, and the EU’s evolving impact investing landscape. The conversation begins with Dr. Lucien van Romburg, who unpacks his latest co‑authored research on why central banks must look beyond monetary policy when evaluating retail CBDCs. He explains how social...

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   10 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

   RR 84 - From Asset Recovery to AI Revolution: Risk, Coordination, and the Future

   Episode 83 with Sangeet Paul Choudary and Amber Phillips 🎧 We explore two critical frontiers shaping the future of compliance, risk, and governance - from the fight against financial crime to the systemic impact of artificial intelligence. Spotlight: Amber Phillips on Asset Recovery and Financial Investigators We begin with Dr. Amber Phillips, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at UWE Bristol, who shines a spotlight on the often-overlooked heroes of financial crime enforcement: accredited financi...

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   26 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Ep 83 - Hong Kong’s New Protection of Critical Infrastructures (Computer Systems) Ordinance

   Episode 83 with Wendy Chow, Nicky Au, and Pierre Malgorn 🎧 Hong Kong is stepping into a new era of cybersecurity regulation with the Protection of Critical Infrastructure Computer Systems Ordinance, set to take effect on January 1, 2026. What does this mean for businesses, and how will it reshape the city’s role as a global hub? In this episode of Regulatory Ramblings, host Ajay Shamdasani explores the ordinance’s implications, from compliance challenges to talent strategies and emerging thre...

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Ep 85 - Advancing the Impact Investing Framework + The Social Dimension of CBDCs

Published 24 Dec 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] You know, gathering that extraneous data, it can be useful possibly, it's up down the road in the future, it can be very interesting, but it almost reminds me of what my law professor and evidence law once said to one of my fellow students, which was everything in the universe is connected to everything else, but if you didn't have relevancy rules, if you didn't have some form of filtration in the discovery process, there'd be no end to this, trials would go on forever. So, yeah. Materiality is what makes reporting efficient, so think of traditional accounting rules, you wouldn't have to report immaterial facts in accounting, and when it comes to sustainability accounting, we should also focus on material effects for your investment, and of course this materiality threshold has been disregarded with this, please report on everything approach, and this is one of all main targets of our paper that we say, how can we rectify it? […]

Who has been a guest on Regulatory Ramblings

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• Ritu Bhasin
• Jeiz Robles
• Lucas Har
• Steve Vickers
• Ajay Shamdasani

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YouTube views

14,559

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 77 / 100

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Quality

86

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

92

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