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Mexico’s energy sectors will have to remove these - but when?

The proposed initial public offering (IPO) of Chinese internet company Alibaba Group would be one of the year's biggest. But Hong Kong should not concede corporate governance principles to win the listing.

Cavinder Bull SC and Chia Voon Jiet of Drew & Napier examine the role of lawyers and in-house counsel in discovery for litigation proceedings in Singapore

Investigations of alleged oil price manipulation highlight the challenges of overseeing cross-border oil price benchmarks. Michael A Yuffee, Daniel A Mullen and J Peter Ripley of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson explain why

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) is working to increase its profile both within Asia and around the world. Its head of corporate strategy spoke to IFLR about its international plans.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofA) is recognised for having the key components for a strong DCM group; a large book and innovative strategies for tackling deals. While nearly anything will sell in an active market, prevailing conditions have required greater creativity on the part of banking teams.

Mexico’s state-run power sector is set to liberalise. The proposed reforms give an early indication of how private entities will be able to participate

Financial services firms have much to gain from investment protections being discussed in the EU-US free trade negotiations

Global bank reforms – most notably Basel III – have spurred the development of alternatives to traditional bank lending, and in turn, prompted the increasing sophistication of Asia's DCM. With its focus on emerging markets, Standard Chartered has been at the forefront of DCM's evolution in the region.

Elias Neocleous On August 8 the Cyprus Government published a roadmap for the lifting of restrictions that were imposed on banking operations in March 2013, and which apply to funds in the domestic banking system at the time of the bail-in. Funds remitted to Cyprus from abroad after March 27 2013 are exempt from the restrictions. The government is committed to restoring the free movement of capital as soon as conditions allow, and indeed a number of relaxations of the controls have already taken place. The roadmap reflects the strategy agreed between the Ministry of Finance, the Central Bank of Cyprus and the troika of international lenders, namely that controls should remain in place only for as long as is strictly necessary, and should be gradually removed through prudent incremental steps, so as to safeguard financial stability.