2025 Asia Pacific Financial Services Regulatory Outlook
Innovating through complexity
Deloitte's Asia Pacific Centre for Regulatory Strategy (ACRS) presents its 2025 Regulatory Outlook report, providing a comprehensive analysis of the evolving financial services landscape across the region.
The report details key considerations for board members, senior executives and financial service firms, helping them anticipate and respond to both emerging and ongoing challenges.
This year's reports provides insights into artificial intelligence, greenwashing, financial crime, and the regulation of virtual assets, as regulatory priorities continue to fragment across jurisdictions.
What does this mean for New Zealand?
Regulatory reform is gaining momentum, with a growing push to balance compliance with efficiency. The establishment of the Ministry for Regulation in 2024 signals potential shifts in financial services regulation, with an aspiration of creating a balance between compliance and innovation. At the same time, the Government's 2024-2025 financial services reform package aims to enhance financial market efficiency with an ambitious sentiment of reducing burden.
Financial crime prevention also remains a key priority in Aotearoa. Regulators have intensified efforts to combat scams and unregulated investment activity, using social media alerts, case studies, and intelligence-sharing to strengthen consumer protection but there is still more that can be done.
With these developments in mind, the 2025 Asia Pacific Financial Services Regulatory Outlook provides essential insights to help New Zealand financial institutions stay ahead of regulatory shifts - ensuring they remain competitive, compliant, and prepared for the future.
Our Regulatory Risk team is working with clients across a range of industries to help them navigate regulatory challenges and advise on how to embed regulatory change into their business, using modern and contemporary tooling to implement that change and helping to operate those activities in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
To understand what this changing regulatory landscape might mean for your business, we encourage you to reach out to Catherine Law to discuss further.
