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The US financial system is under threat, and experts believe that the structured finance space is likely to be the cause of the next financial crisis

Shihani Soysa Chune Loong Lum In China, Linklaters announced that it has received regulatory approval from the Shanghai Bureau of Justice for its joint operations with Zhao Sheng Law Firm.

The football World Cup is now in full swing. At the time of writing the winning country is still to be determined though every member of the IFLR team has their favourite.

China's central bank governor Yi Gang announced in April that China would implement six steps to open up the financial sector by the end of 2018. Since then, a number of measures have been taken to progress towards this goal including increased caps on the foreign ownership of securities brokerages, investment funds, futures firms and life companies. A move towards the final removal of caps can be expected within three years. Foreign funded banks can also be allowed to underwrite and sell government bonds in China. Other plans include increasing accessibility to China's equity markets such as through the London-Shanghai Stock Connect. Foreign players like Nomura, JP Morgan and UBS have begun to raise their shareholdings in China. JP Morgan has applied to set up a majority ownership securities firm while UBS has raised its shareholding proportion in UBS Securities from 24.99% to 51% and Nomura has announced a plan to set up a holding firm.

Similarities and differences exist between the US Model X Forms and Europe’s LMA documentation

The PRC is putting policies in place to foster private investment into targeted technology areas

Challenger banks are shaping the future of the market. The larger lenders are paying attention

Are common financing terms becoming the norm in the world’s main credit markets?

The Supreme Court of Singapore’s Justice Aedit Abdullah discusses the country’s recent overhaul of its restructuring and insolvency framework

The UK is opening up the listing process. It may encounter difficulties along the way