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  • Sponsored by GVZH Advocates
    Andrew Zammit of GVZH Advocates looks at the coming wave of legislation currently in bill form before the Maltese government that will to set out a framework for virtual currencies and initial coin offerings
  • Sponsored by BSA Ahmad Bin Hezeem & Associates
    Nadim Bardawil of DIFC-headquartered BSA Ahmad Bin Hezeem & Associates weighs up incubator programmes and legislative pressures chasing fintech development
  • Sponsored by Homburger
    Benedikt Maurenbrecher, Daniel Haeberli and Urs Meier of Homburger look at Swiss regulatory breakthroughs for initial coin offerings and other fintech structures
  • Rishabh Shroff and Varsha Reddy of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas examine Indian rules surrounding investment in Japan
  • One component of the EU's Capital Markets Union project is to ensure that securitisations are carried out in a transparent and risk-reflective manner, and that they are of high quality. As with many other financial instruments, this more cautious approach is a direct reaction to practices that were brought to light by the financial crisis.
  • Change is coming to the way stock transfers are recorded as blockchain technology allows stockholder lists to be managed electronically
  • UK firm DWF has expanded its Australian arm with eight senior hires and the opening of a new office in Newcastle in New South Wales. The new office will be the firm's fourth in the country joining existing bases in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
  • Sfera Legal, based in Costa Rica, has continued its regional expansion with the launch of Sfera Legal El Salvador and Sfera Legal Nicaragua. The firm is now present in four central American countries.
  • Fieldfisher has opened a new office in Luxembourg, hiring Ingrid Dubourdieu to head up the new operation. Dubourdieu is a funds and regulatory lawyer. The firm says that the firm will also expand to offer corporate M&A and tax services. The move follows the firm's other recent office openings in Amsterdam and Frankfurt.
  • On April 26 2018, the Brazilian Central Bank issued new regulations (i) allowing certain types of transactions by credit fintechs, exclusively through electronic lending platforms; and, (ii) covering the areas of cybersecurity, data storage and cloud computing applicable to financial and payment institutions.