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Italy's election has made the EU's worst fears a reality. The election saw a stunning rejection of the EU and massive support for eurosceptic parties, including the far-right League that became the largest conservative party in Italy. Negotiations are ongoing to form a functioning government and several permutations could arise, but the most probable conclusion politically is a coalition involving the 5 Star Movement, the League and potentially Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia. League has strongly favoured exiting the EU and the euro previously, and taken a hardline stance against immigration, venturing into clear racism on occasions. Just after her election as mayor of Cascina, in Tuscany, Susanna Ceccardi posted a cartoon of a young woman dressed as a Viking kicking a dark-skinned pig dressed in a turban who dropped a Koran, with the words 'wake up Europe' underneath. Since the election campaign began, their stance on the EU has softened somewhat but they are likely to be a big obstacle in any plans to pull member states closer.

It's one of the most contentions topics in the US financial regulation sector at the moment: the Senate's financial deregulation bill, which is set to unpick parts of the Dodd-Frank Act. When the Act was passed in 2010, it was hailed as the band aid with would help the financial sector heal and get its strength back.

There are different forms and treatments of subordination agreements in Swiss insolvency. This article is inspired by the authors’ experience representing the security agent of $1.75 billion bond issue of a Swiss based oil refinery group

Jackie Kahng In India Trilegal has closed its Hyderabad office and will service existing clients from Bangalore. The firm's one partner Pavan Kumar has left the firm.

Diversifying the sources of funding and reducing their dependency on bankers: SMEs can kill two birds with one stone

Since September 21 2017, the Colombian regulatory authorities have focused their efforts on enacting regulations that provide supervision to financial conglomerates and demand certain financial and corporate governance standards from the companies and the vehicles involved in the composition of such groups.

This traditional German debt instrument is attracting international interest

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has issued a circular notifying issuers of securities which are listed for trading on the Cyprus Stock Exchange or any other regulated market of its priority issues for financial statements and annual reports for 2017. CySEC's priority issues are identical to those set out in the latest Public Statement on European Common Enforcement Priorities published by the European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma). The Public Statement sets out the priorities jointly agreed by national supervisory authorities of the countries of the European Economic Area in relation to financial statements for the year 2017 regarding the implementation of international financial reporting standards (IFRS), with the objective of achieving consistency in the application of the IFRS in Europe.

Over two months in, and the new rules are not having the impact they were initially expected to

Balancing participation and risk management is key to successfully navigate the complexities of tenders