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

The ball is in national regulators’ court to determine what is a genuine or a material adverse contractual change when it comes to Libor repapering exceptions for initial margin rules

UK firms' ability to trade EU-listed shares post-Brexit remains uncertain. The FCA will be applying a level of flexibility for firms that demonstrate an attempt at compliance by March 29

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

Although global buyside firms support Mifid II’s unbundling rule across all their operations, various Asian regulators and smaller domestic investment firms tell Practice Insight they’re unhappy with the new dynamic

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

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.

The US regulator’s decision to step into the already crowded FCPA space comes as a shock to the industry, as it looks to broaden the scope of its enforcement

Transaction reporting, best execution, costs and charges are expected to be key enforcement areas. The UK regulator's market reporting team has already sent a number of letters to banks and fund managers

Debt, equities and FX market participants are pricing in a delay to Brexit following the vote on March 12, as well as preparing the new deal pipeline for the first week of April