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This month's issue explores if equivalence is a backdoor route for UK firms to maintain access to EU markets

Wonil Kim, Myung Soo Lee and Ju Yong Lee, of Yoon & Yang take a look at various proposed legislative attempts to relax the current prohibition on industrial companies owning internet-only banks

Jung Min Lee, Gye-Jeong Kim and Denai (Minji) Koh of Kim & Chang take a look at how crowdfunding is regulated in Korea, and assess if this new flexible form of financing could one day surpass bank lending for SMEs

Since 2003, the Central Bank of Cyprus has maintained a database known as the Central Information Registry (CIR) to record details of issuers of dishonoured cheques. It is administered by a committee, which has the sole competence to register, maintain, update and delete data regarding registered persons.

In a bid to better conform to international standards and improve the quality of information disclosure, the Financial Services Authority of Indonesia (OJK) issued a new regulation in March 2017 detailing public disclosure obligations of certain shareholders of Indonesian public companies.

The government is progressively loosening up relevant rules to allow foreign-owned enterprises to access China’s capital market, which has been tightly regulated until now

Infrastructure deals are given a boost in the Americas It has been another important month for the Trump administration's regulatory upheaval plans, albeit not a particularly productive one. Trumpcare (or Ryancare in some circles) and the attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, fell flat in the House, casting wide aspersions of the regime's capacity to get anything through Congress.

Saudi Arabia has kept the capital markets busy this past month

Garrett Monaghan In Denmark, DLA PIPER continued its big push in the Nordics with the announcement of a merger with LETT. This move makes DLA the only international firm to have established a presence in all four Nordic nations following its mergers with Finnish outfit Peltonen LMR and Swedish group Grönberg, both in 2016. The team also boosted its Finnish operation this month with the addition of M&A partner Matti Ylä-Mononen from fellow international firm Bird & Bird.

Come together, right now, Bond Connect Following the close of the annual National People's Congress last month, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang announced the establishment of a Bond Connect between Hong Kong and mainland China. China's decision to add a debt link to complement the existing Stock Connect is expected to better enable overseas investors to trade PRC-traded bonds. The tie-up will not only augment the PRC investor base tapping and driving liquidity for Hong Kong's fixed income market, but also help maximise the chances of the RMB63.7 trillion ($9.21 trillion) onshore bond market being included in benchmark global indices.