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China has struggled to curb the growth of off-balance-sheet businesses. Here’s how wealth management plans have slipped through the regulatory cracks

"It's tremendously important that we are wide-awake to the potentially adverse, unintended consequences of interest rates being where they are," the Bank of England's head of financial stability Andrew Haldane told IFLR this month, in an exclusive online-only video series. "We need to be super vigilant that markets don't get ahead of themselves, don't become too bubbly."

Lawyers can spend too much time chasing these

Timothy Langenkamp, Sidley Austin Trey Monsour, K&L Gates George Davis, O’Melveny & Myers Even by the standards of Houston's breakneck-paced, rough-and-tumble legal market, this spring has shaped up to be a busy one. As April moved into May, K&L GATES announced that it had lured Anthony Newton from Haynes and Boone to its office in Houston, where Newton will apply his knowledge of M&A, refinancings, private equity deals, and tax matters on behalf of oil and gas drillers and other corporate clients. Newton's hire came just days after K&L GATES announced the addition of Bruce Blefeld from Jackson Walker and Trey Monsour from Haynes and Boone as partners in its antitrust and restructuring practices respectively. PAUL HASTINGS hired corporate and securities lawyer Gislar Donnenberg as a partner in its Houston bureau. Donnenberg possesses special expertise in master limited partnerships (MLPs), a form of publicly traded partnership enjoying a surge of interest from both retail and institutional investors.

They won’t be reinvented under the programme

Hans Jürgen Meyer-Lindemann, Dechert The most high profile move in London last month was the capture by BAKER & McKENZIE of corporate partner Don Guiney from Freshfields. Guiney had spent the last 16 years at the UK firm and it has been suggested that Baker & McKenzie has made the hire in anticipation of a rise in work in the equity capital markets.

Asian bank resolution regimes that force a certain amount of capital to be held in domestic subsidiaries are misguided, a survey has indicated.

Debt capital markets and project finance underpin Africa’s rise as a global investment hub. Here’s how to navigate the sectors’ unique challenges

Contrary to popular legal opinion, trust structures are recognised under German law. And they are a powerful tool for lenders to utilise

Etihad's acquisition of a 24% stake in publicly-listed Jet Airways shows how a minority stakeholder can gain influence in an Indian company