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    Benedikt Maurenbrecher, Daniel Haeberli and Urs Meier of Homburger look at Swiss regulatory breakthroughs for initial coin offerings and other fintech structures
  • 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.
  • On December 1 2017, partial amendments to the Act on Specified Joint Real Estate Ventures (Amended Act) came into force. The Amended Act is aimed at making the specified joint real estate ventures system more accessible. The following is a brief summary of the new business categories established by the Amended Act.
  • Recent case law involving financial institutions confirms the ongoing viability of the Bankruptcy Code’s provisions
  • 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.
  • Rishabh Shroff and Varsha Reddy of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas examine Indian rules surrounding investment in Japan
  • Change is coming to the way stock transfers are recorded as blockchain technology allows stockholder lists to be managed electronically
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The Latin American region and the infrastructure industry have been making the headlines after recent investigations and exemplary sanctions on corruption-related scandals that have even overthrown governments. Colombia has not been immune from this situation: this has encouraged regulators to acelerate efforts to criminalise behaviours related to compliance risks especially corruption, bribery, money laundering and financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), and antitrust.