Practice Areas
Elaine CHAN is the Co-Head of the Financial Services Regulatory Practice.
She has extensive regulatory experience advising a broad spectrum of financial institutions on the structuring of their operations in Singapore for alignment with financial regulations. She regularly assists with licensing applications and the drafting of documentation to operationalise business models in compliance with financial regulations. Such documentation includes customer terms and conditions, account opening documentation, service level agreements for outsourced functions, compliance manuals and compliance matrices.
Publications
- Regulation of Banks and other Financial Institutions – 2011 reissue of Volume 12 – Halsbury's Laws of Singapore on "Finance and Banking"
- The Banking Regulation Review - Third Edition - Singapore Chapter
- Global Legal Insights - Banking Regulation – First Edition, 2013 - Singapore Chapter
- Getting the Deal Through - Banking Regulation 2016, 2020 and 2021 - Singapore Chapter
- Butterworths Journal of International Banking & Financial Law – The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Testing the adequacy of a financial institution's pandemic measures 2020 and Digital Disruption in Singapore: The new digital bank licensing framework 2019
- Singapore Country Guide, Thomson Reuters - Securities & Banking 2019, 2020 and 2021