Q&A: Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings’s Akihiro Kawabe on transparency

Risk management around the world will have to adapt to new regulations this year and beyond, as closer scrutiny behind derivatives operations pushes financial institutions, trading houses and end-users into a more standardised regime. However, each region is not without its own special risks.

While European Union member countries adhere to many of the same cross-border trading rules and standards, Asia is fractured country-by-country in terms of trading regulations, types of markets and geopolit