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Are NPAs and DPAs efficient enforcement tools?

Overcoming misguided criticism regarding their level of transparency and punitive character, these tools have proven essential to resolution

March 05 2018

Time for boldness: EU banking union progress

Plans for a European banking union have been a long time in the making. Since 2012, the EU has been in conversation with member states to strengthen the bloc against economic shocks. These conversations have intensified over the last few weeks but Germany's acting finance minister Peter Altmaier said that clarifications on risk sharing and reduction need to be made in order to proceed to the next stage.

March 05 2018

Merger control cross-jurisdictional analysis

IFLR's fifth annual Merger Control Survey was conducted on a global basis over a two month period. Based on the responses, legal systems in each jurisdiction have been rated on a spectrum that ranges from predictable and light touch regulation to unpredictable or highly intrusive regulation. The ratings do not indicate whether or not a particular approach is justifiable or reasonable.

March 05 2018

UCTA reasonableness test under scrutiny

Under the 1977 legislation, where a party deals on its written standard terms of business exclusions or limitations of that party’s liability must pass the Act’s reasonableness test

March 05 2018

Waking up and cracking down

Regulators are getting wise to cryptocurrencies

John Crabb, March 05 2018

Ankara Castle, Ankara capital city of Turkey

2018 Merger Control Survey: Turkey

Gönenç Gürkaynak and Öznur İnanılır, ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law

March 05 2018

LONDON, UK - MAY 13, 2012: Leadenhall market in London. It is one of the oldest markets in London, dating back to the 14th century.

The next chapter

Colin Raftery, director of mergers at the CMA, discusses policy developments, priorities and Brexit

IFLR Correspondent, March 05 2018

Vietnam: New retail business legislation

On January 15 2018, the Vietnamese government issued Decree 09/2018/ND-CP which came into force on the same day. Decree 09/2018/ND-CP replaced Decree 23/2007/ND-CP in governing trading goods and other directly related activities by foreign investors and foreign-invested companies in Vietnam. Decree 09/2018/ND-CP sheds light on some issues which were not clear under Decree 23/2007/ND-CP, but on the other hand raises doubts on others. There are five takeaways affecting the retail business sector.

March 05 2018

Colombia: FX self-regulation update

In furtherance of the Iosco principles, the Colombian Securities Market Self-Regulatory Organisation (SRO) has adopted a number of compliance-related certification requirements and is about to issue a comprehensive review of self-regulation guidelines for the foreign exchange (FX) market.

March 05 2018

Cyprus: New prudential framework

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has issued a notification to entities it regulates and to participants in the market in general of the consultation process regarding a proposed amendment of the EU prudential rules for investment firms.

March 05 2018

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