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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.

The race is on to crown the world's largest e-commerce company. This particular market may count an endless number of organisations, but the battle is really only between the US' Amazon and China-headquartered Alibaba. Both have multi-billion capitalisations, huge market shares and more spare cash to spend than the economy of a small country.

The European Commission plans to shift prospectus approval into the hands of Esma – to the dismay of national competent authorities. IFLR asks whether it’s the right decision

The CFTC has said that if a company reports and remediates any issues of its own accord, it will likely face lower financial penalties. But the proposal’s effects remain to be seen

The Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) regulates the banking and finance industries in Ireland. It has a broad range of investigative powers to allow it to perform its supervisory and regulatory functions. These include the power to enter into and search premises, take copies of documents and obtain information in other ways. The legislation protects the right to legal professional privilege (LPP) enjoyed by a person who is the subject of the exercise of those powers. However, the legislation is otherwise generally silent on issues such as the right to privacy of personal information. The interaction of regulatory powers with the right to privacy in our digital age has been the subject of much discussion recently in Ireland.

Buyers and sellers must consider several points when negotiating antitrust provisions in strategic transaction agreements