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A recent report reveals what has turned it off A PricewaterhouseCoopers report has revealed the primary causes of illiquidity in global fixed income markets. The cumulative impact of post-crisis regulations is a major culprit. Released on August 12, the report was commissioned by the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA) and Institute of International Finance. While banks are better capitalised than ever before, the knock-on effect has seen liquidity in the secondary bond market fall sharply since mid-2014.

Guatemalans are just a few weeks away from heading to the polls to participate in the country's general elections (presidential, congress and municipal)

Arturo Caraballo The height of summer was a busy time for lateral hiring at US, Canadian and offshore firms. In early August, WEIL GOTSHAL & MANGES bolstered its restructuring practice with the hire of partner Matt Barr in New York. Barr, who joined from Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, advises creditors, debtors, bondholders, funds and shareholders in Chapter 11 and out-of-court restructurings. In the same city, SCHULTE ROTH & ZABEL gained both Boris Ziser and Thomas Weinberger from Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. Ziser, who takes the helm of Schulte's structured products and derivatives practice, works with a myriad of asset classes including loans, leases, cell towers and lottery receivables. Weinberger's background includes work on asset-backed securities, particularly risk-linked securities. He has also engineered fund formations.

On June 29 2015, the Minister of Manpower of the Republic of Indonesia issued a new regulation on the procedures of employing foreign manpower

On July 8 2015, the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing) Act 2015 was enacted into Irish law

An inaugural issuance of tier 2 bonds has revealed widely-held confidence in the budding asset class. It also creates a structure for others to replicate

European banks need liquidity, and ABS – with a few tweaks – can provide it. Here’s how to revive the ailing market

In Japan, out-of-court methods are available for restructuring debts owed by corporate debtors, a procedure referred to as alternative dispute resolution turnaround (ADRT)

The Legislative Assembly of Macau is analysing the proposal to amend the External Trade Law (Law 7/2003 of June 23 2015)

A recently-agreed sanctions deal could reconnect the Middle East’s second biggest economy with the global financial system. But it needs private sector buy-in