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Like other European countries, Spain has not fully developed the regulation to implement the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) by January 3 2018.

As one of Vietnam's efforts to strengthen the national banking system, which has been unstable in recent times, on November 20 2017 the National Assembly introduced a new law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the 2010 Law on Credit Institutions (Amended LOCI). The new law came into effect on January 15 2018.

Thailand has enjoyed a relatively stable petroleum law regime since 1971 when the Petroleum Act BE 2514, 1971 (PA) and the Petroleum Income Tax Act BE 2514, 1971 (PITA) were enacted. Thailand adopted a modern form of petroleum concession, which has been updated from time to time. There have been 20 bid rounds, the last in 2007. A number of commercial oil and gas discoveries have been made, and as of 2017, there were 38 concessions in force. However, Thailand has limited geological prospects for oil and gas, and it imports more than 40% of its natural gas requirements.

The legal recognition of close-out netting provisions in financial contracts is increasingly significant to parties in the UAE as the region advances implementation of Basel III principles

The OECD/G20 led project aims to limit choices limit choices of companies as to where they can locate and how they can structure their activities

Brian McKenna In Australia it was announced in December that Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) and Henry Davis York (HDY) would merge under the NRF banner. HDY's managing partner Michael Greene is now deputy managing partner in Australia at his new firm and national head of the government practice. The move follows a similar merger for NRF recently with Chadbourne & Parke.

An in-depth look at how it differs from a traditional bond and how it has the potential to change the way capital markets function

With five months to go until the regulation goes live, how are businesses in Asia doing when it comes to compliance?

It's been a year since Donald Trump first took office, and there has been much discussion about how successfully he has implemented his campaign promises

China has been stepping up its efforts to tighten regulations to rein in financial risks. The latest moves include strengthening lending regulation for online microloans by banning unlicensed operations and setting borrowing limits. These cash loans typically charge high interest rates and are targeted towards those with limited access to credit, poor credit history and/or who need access to funds quickly. There are over 2,500 online platforms providing short-term loans to 10 million users in China with loans in this sector totalling in excess of RMB1 trillion ($155 billion).