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A bank may need to acquire treasury stocks for a variety of reasons, such as to adjust firm leverage levels or to deliver financial compensation to shareholders. One concern, though, is the situation where the bank wishes to repurchase its shares from the market while its foreign shareholding ratio has already reached the threshold under the law.

In this exclusive interview, the regulator's former acting head talks about his successor, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Volcker and his future

Latest guidance seeks to reconcile differences in UK and US opinion letter practices in cross-border financial transactions

The PCC is stepping up enforcement scrutiny

Nicolas Véron and Larry Tabb debate if harmonisation is the best way forward

The government has opened the market to new credit providers but only in a limited way – for now

The unbundling of investment research is proving a headache for both the industry and regulators

The Mifid II train will arrive at Compliance station on January 3

The US dollar value of bitcoin reached over $11,000 on November 29 for the first time in its seven-year history as institutional investors flooded the market. At the time of writing, the level has fluctuated slightly but is still hovering close to that landmark level.

It hasn't been a great year for the Americas. It's a year that around 48% of voting US citizens would like to see stricken from the record, where corruption scandals continue to engulf Brazil and Venezuela has fallen further into despair. Mexico continues to wait tensely to see what will happen to Nafta and whether a somewhat controversial 3,200km wall will ever materialise along its northernmost border. But even with all the doom and gloom across the region, it is Puerto Rico that has arguably been hit the hardest, allegorically, physically and perhaps most damaging, financially.