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Markus Federle, general counsel of Samena Capital, examines the burgeoning potential of Asia for private equity investors

Japanese internet services company GMO Group has announced that it will start paying a proportion of the salaries of those employees that agree to it in bitcoin.

The recent coming into effect of Mifid II is redefining how the sell and buy-sides deal with investment data

Brazilian law provides that foreigners can only acquire or lease rural properties if previously authorised by the National Institute of Rural Settlement and Agrarian Reform (INCRA). The same restrictions apply to foreign controlled Brazilian companies. The limitations were imposed on the premise that the acquisition or leasing of large rural areas by foreigners (directly or via local subsidiaries), mainly for agribusiness or mining activities, must be restricted to protect Brazilian sovereignty as regards the country's land and natural resources.

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.

In the February 2018 cover story, IFLR discusses how upcoming elections in a number of Latam nations could unsettle the equity and debt capital markets

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) has released its latest analysis of data on non-performing loans in the Cyprus banking sector, covering the period to August 31 2017. The analysis shows aggregate non-performing facilities (NPFs) and related indicators for the domestic operations of credit institutions operating in Cyprus. During the month of August NPFs fell by €497 million ($598 million), a reduction of 2.2%, to €21.9 billion, against a backdrop of a smaller (1.1%) reduction in total facilities, from €49.5 billion to €48.9 billion, over the same period. As a result, the percentage of facilities classified as non-performing fell to 44.7% at the end of August 2017. Total impairment provisions made against NPFs totalled €10 billion as at August 31 2017, accounting for 45.9% of aggregate NPFs.

The development of communication media, especially mobile devices with internet access, has led to the appearance and rapid growth of several new types of electronic payment services. In particular, as technology advances, software applications that can be used from mobile devices have quickly developed as easy, reliable and secure platforms from which to perform payment transactions, thus increasingly gaining popularity among consumers and retailers.