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Sosuke Kimura An act amending Japan's Financial Instruments and Exchange Law (FIEL) was passed in May 2011. The amended FIEL, which is scheduled to become effective by May 24 2012, will include revisions to, among other things, the disclosure systems for rights offerings.

The Independent Commission on Banking’s report heralds the biggest shake-up of the UK bank sector in decades. But what did the lawyers have to say?

Marielle Garrigó Project finance transactions have been executed in the Dominican Republic for several years now, mainly for infrastructure projects. Although the existing regulatory framework in the country does not contemplate these types of operations, the regulations have actually demonstrated to be favourable to the creation of a body of contracts and documents that provides a viable structure for financing large projects in Dominican territory.

Anastasia Dritsa Dimitrios Karastogiannis In April 2011, Greece adopted Law 3959/2011 with a view to modernising its competition rules and introducing stricter sanctions.

Rodrigo Taboada In May 2011, the Law of Exchangeable Invoices (Ley de Factura Cambiaria) entered into force in Nicaragua. The same was published in Gazette Number 234 of November 2010, and has as its main purpose the facilitation of immediate access to cash for the commercial sector.

Anthony Coleby The way the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) assumed responsibility for the supervision of Kuwait's investment companies was always going to be a key part of the new regulatory programme for the oversight and operation of local financial markets and the restoration of investor confidence in them. But the first steps it has taken in this area since its launch in March 2011 have been surrounded by confusion and the unfortunate timing of policy statements that will likely instil confidence in nobody.

Teresa Tovar Mena On July 3 2011, Law No 29733 was published in the Peruvian Official Gazette. This Law protects personal information contained in public and private data banks, establishing obligations for those who are responsible for the processing of such data.

Following a busy few months of regulatory proposals, here we summarise European banking and insurance reform and its effects on different stakeholders

Freddy Karyadi Oene Marseille On August 15 2011, Indonesia's Minister of Finance (MoF) issued Regulation 130/PMK.011/2011 concerning the long-awaited tax holiday.

Industry insiders agree that Turkey’s liberalising energy market is an investment opportunity not to be missed. However, ambiguity surrounds the final financing terms