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Commercial battles are being fought on every continent. The Trump administration has imposed tariffs on a wide range of goods from long-standing trade partners including China, Canada and the EU. At the same time, it's reforming and reinforcing the powers of its Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (Cfius) to oversee takeovers by foreign investors, and getting the Department of Defense involved as well for good measure.

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A recent high-value fraud claim gives an insight into the interrogation of ultra-high volume discovery and has shown how bespoke algorithms can be used for tracing exercises involving complex financial transactions

On July 5 2018, the Brazilian Senate passed a new resolution explicitly allowing public consortia to raise money via credit transactions (Resolution 15/2018), amending the previous Senate Resolution 43, of 2001, which regulates and imposes limitations on Brazilian states, municipalities and the federal district when engaging in domestic and international financing arrangements.

The revamped Jobs Act is designed to rejuvenate IPOs, but will it work?

Traditional banking institutions have been fending off the threat of self-made start-up fintech organisations since the concept of fintech first made its way into our vernacular

Julia von Buttlar, deputy head of division in BaFin’s securities supervision directorate, discusses how cooperation is key when it comes to ensuring the integrity of the international financial markets

Blockchain could create new opportunities for verified identity solutions

Japan's offshore wind power generation industry is seeing increased attention from companies and investors, both at home and abroad. On March 9 2018, the Cabinet approved the Bill on the promotion of the use of sea areas related to offshore renewable energy power generation facilities. The Bill is targeted for promulgation in 2019 (or maybe within 2018).

On July 15 2018, Decree 81/2018/ND-CP dated May 22 2018 (Decree 81) took effect and repealed Decree 37/2006/ND-CP dated April 4 2006 (Decree 37), detailing regulations on the law regarding commercial promotional activities. Decree 81 provides certain new regulations with the aim of facilitating commercial promotional activities and encouraging market development.