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Despite predictions of a rise in fund mergers, firms are instead opting to bolster offices in mainland Europe – but the UK’s exit is just one many factors

The green bond market has been developing worldwide in the past decade, financing projects in renewable energy, energy efficiency and other eco-friendly industries combating climate change. In line with the United Nations Environment Programme, the government has approved the country's Green Growth Strategy for 2011 to 2020. As a result, municipal green bonds have been prepared and issued for green projects as pilot programmes in Ho Chi Minh City and Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province since 2016. According to Vietstock, the Vietnamese bond market gained an average annual growth of 24% per year for the period of 2011 to 2016 and mobilised VND2,000,000,000,000,000 ($86 billion) in 2017, equivalent to 40% of Vietnam's GDP for that year. Since the target revenue gained from the bond market is 65% of the GDP until 2030, there is still room for development of the Vietnamese bond market, including green bonds.

Foreign investors are eyeing the market up, but the industry’s growth could be hampered by the new requirements, which crypto platforms and lawyers say are unduly high

Listen to a live recording of IFLR's latest webinar, in collaboration with Hogan Lovells, featuring an overview of market consultations and the impact on documentation so far

In case you missed it, here are all the highlights from our two-day forum in Hong Kong

Changes to the regulation take aim at foreign players, including Amazon and Walmart. IFLR's latest primer explains what's new

The agency's decision to prohibit Moscow-based Evrofinance using the Venezuela sanctions act is a stark reminder to similar institutions

This updated edition of IFLR's free-to-read primer series looks at the SEC's ambitious central data repository and the problems it has faced since inception

Distributed ledger technology and AI offer the biggest opportunities for traditional financial institutions, according to in-house sources at banks and asset managers

Bills heading for Congress could make the budding North American sector bankable for the first time, but it might not be enough to get the biggest lenders comfortable with the risks