The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) recently hosted a joint enforcement training in Shenzhen on digital forensics (Note 1).
Around 40 enforcement officers from the SFC and over 80 investigators from the CSRC participated in the training session and shared their insights and experience on topics including:
- legal and technical issues related to digital forensics in the process of data retrieval, recovery, analysis and presentation;
- practical case studies on a new forensic equipment and analysis platform; and
- application of big data in law enforcement.
Mr Thomas Atkinson, the SFC’s Executive Director of Enforcement, said: "The acceleration in the pace of technological advancement coupled with an increasingly complex financial landscape have transformed the way markets operate, bringing new challenges to our enforcement work. It is essential for market regulators to have up-to-date techniques and tools to cope with these changes effectively."
"We will also deepen our cooperation with the CSRC and other market regulators as interconnectivity among global markets continues to grow," Mr Atkinson added.
The SFC would like to thank experts from the Economic Crime Investigation Department of the Ministry of Public Security, the Hong Kong Police, the Independent Commission Against Corruption and an overseas digital forensic firm for participating in the event and sharing their insights on the latest development in digital forensics.
Note:
- This is the third joint training event of its kind. It was held in the China Capital Market Institute in Shenzhen, following the previous one in Xiamen in December last year. For more details, please see the SFC’s press release dated 15 December 2017.
