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Thailand has the highest solar and wind power output in ASEAN. The Thai regulators adopted an adder tariff policy, and subsequently a feed-in tariff policy, which provided incentives for renewable projects.

The existing labour shortage is providing fertile ground for the establishment of new unions, or the strengthening of the position of existing ones, and many employers find themselves facing this prospect. The establishment of a trade union is a relatively simple process which, when combined with the prevailing situation in the job market, has contributed to the fact that trade unions are cropping up around Slovakia often only as a form of bullying employers. Increasingly we are encountering cases where the persons who establish these unions do not even actually work for the particular employer where the union is being formed. These people select companies based mainly on their economic performance and then send out mass mailings to employers informing them that a union has been established in their workplace, often stating unreasonable and even absurd demands. They have no knowledge of the conditions at play at any employer, and only afterwards do they try to recruit the workers as members of the union. There has not yet been established a cohesive and effective form of defence against these practices.

Korea has no laws and regulations which are specifically apply to cryptocurrencies. The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) and other Korean regulatory bodies have issued a number of press releases on basic government policies regarding, among other things, initial coin offerings (ICOs), cryptocurrency exchanges, and Ponzi schemes and other fraudulent activities involving bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

The European Parliament recently passed a new regulation on securitisation, which is part of the capital markets union action plan. Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 of the European Parliament and Council, of December 12 2017 (the Securitisation Regulation), establishes a general framework for securitisation and creates a specific framework for simple, transparent and standardised securitisation. Its aim is to promote a safe and liquid market for securitisation. An amendment was also implemented relating to the regulation on capital requirements. Its purpose is to make the capital treatment of securitisations for banks and investment firms more risk-sensitive and to reflect the specific features of simple, transparent and standardised securitisations.

The National Assembly has enacted the Law on Public Debt Management 2017 (LPDM 2017) which will be effective on July 1 2018. In comparison with the previous law, the LPDM 2017 imposes more stringent conditions on the new issuance of government guarantees for foreign loans of enterprises implementing investment projects, thereby leading to more difficulty in obtaining government guarantees for financing of enterprises and their projects, particularly for those with foreign-sourced funding.

The six-year programme is to come to an end in 2019 – but should it really be halted?

State regulators and officials need to take advantage of the Commodity Exchange Act and bring certain swaps dealer’s violations of Dodd-Frank to the federal district courts to protect their constituents

Baker McKenzie was named the best international firm for women in business law at LMG's June 14 event in London

The head of Horizon Community Bank in Arizona says recent regulatory developments have been kind to community banks, but more could be done

Urs Feller and Marcel Frey of Prager Dreifuss provide an overview of the rights of heirs when identifying Swiss assets