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On September 20 2017, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) issued decision 3610A/QD-BCT announcing a plan to remove 675 business and investment conditions from the 1,216 existing conditions under its management for the 2017 to 2018 period. This is the MOIT's first move in response to the government's recent call for a comprehensive review and removal of unnecessary business conditions which restrain foreign investment and reduce national competitiveness. Since its issuance, decision 3610A has made headlines due to its unprecedented reduction of business conditions in the history of the MOIT.

Ireland is the latest sovereign to successfully launch a zero-coupon bond in the market, with reports pointing to demand 2.5x oversubscribed for the five-year notes.

Hew Kian Heong Michelle Li In China, Herbert Smith Freehills hired three new projects partners from Pinsent Masons. This closely followed the ending of the alliance between Pinsents and Chinese firm Hesen Law Firm.

Sean Lacey Pierantonio Musso In Latvia – in the latest chapter of the long-running firm merry-go-round that has been the Baltic legal market in recent years – the local branch of Swedish firm Magnusson announced it has split from its former network and joined pan-Baltic group Glimstedt. Following the merger of its Latvia team Glimstedt & Partners with Ellex in February, Glimstedt had lacked a presence in Riga for the past eight months. Its new office is now managed by partners Aldis Kalinks, Ivars Kronis, Valdis Kronis, Agnese Medne, and Lauris Zubulis.

As far back as 1987, through the 2008 financial crisis and on to this very month, the concept of integrating the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) has been an ongoing discussion that has neither gained steam nor gone away. The US is unusual in having a financial regulatory system that has evolved organically, and equally unusual it has distinct agencies that regulate the securities and derivatives spaces.

Trying to get rid of non-performing loans (NPLs) in Europe is akin to digging a hole with a spoon – an already painstakingly drawn out process that's made even longer by the lack of adequate tools to deal with the problem.

The Slovak Commercial Code is set for sweeping changes, most of which, if signed by the president, will come into force in January 2018.

Increased tax transparency obligations on private companies may actually make it easier to be IPO ready

Regulatory enforcement and related litigation in the UK have evolved significantly since the financial crisis

The market is pondering what life after the benchmark will look like, including possible replacements and the impact on future and updated bond programmes