作者：金杜律师事务所 银行部
2014年9月3日，中国银监会与国家发改委、工信部及科技部共同下发了《关于应用安全可控信息技术加强银行业网络安全和信息化建设的指导意见》(银监发[2014]39号文，下称“39号文”)。作为落实39号文的实施细则，银监会办公厅随后又于2014年12月26日，与工信部办公厅共同印发了《银行业应用安全可控信息技术推进指南(2014-2015年度)》(银监办发[2014]317号文，下称“317号文”)。39号文和317号文(以下合称“银监会新规”)旨在加强我国银行业乃至金融行业的信息安全，并为银行设定了一系列相关任务和指标，从而也引发了各银行业金融机构对银监会新规的广泛关注。
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By Banking Team King & Wood Mallesons
Overview
The China Banking Regulatory Commission (“CBRC”) jointly with three other government departments promulgated the CBRC Guidance Opinions on the Use of Secure and Controllable Technology to Strengthen the Internet Security and Information Construction of Banking Industry (YINJIANFA (2014) No. 39, the “CBRC Opinion”) on 3 September 2014. The Guidelines on Promoting the Use of Secure and Controllable Technology in Banking Industry (2014-2015) (YINJIANBANFA (2014) No. 317, the “CBRC Guidelines”) were later issued on 26 December 2014, as the detailed implementing rules of the CBRC Opinion. Targeting to improve the information security in the banking sector and in a larger sense, the financial security of China, the CBRC Opinion and the CBRC Guidelines (collectively, the “New Rules”) require that banks, within a specific timeframe, achieve a series of fixed targets in relation to applying “secure and controllable” IT products. This may have a significant impact on China’s banking industry and thus have already fuelled concerns in the market.
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By Mark Schaub King & Wood Mallesons’ M&A Group
The CBRC has issued on 20 January 2015 The Notice on the Promotion Guidelines for banking applications of secure and controllable information technology (2014-2015) (“CBRC Guidelines”). The CBRC Guidelines has immediately set off a panic amongst financial institutions operating in PRC and software/hardware/service vendors. The CBRC Guidelines require banks to use “secure and controllable” IT, but many foreign invested financial institutions and vendors are concerned that the guidelines are a large incremental step in an on-going trend aimed at their exclusion from the Chinese market.
Continue Reading Securing China’s Banking IT – CBRC Makes Life Much Tougher for MNC Vendors
