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Serra Basoglu Gurkaynak and Alisya Bengi Danisman of Mehmet Gun & Partners discuss the burgeoning market for Islamic lease-backed bonds in Turkey

Due to factors such as the high yen exchange rate and the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, the Japanese economy remains fragile and uncertain

The Management of Financial Crises Law of 2011, as amended by Law 40(I) of 2012 is an enabling measure which regulates the delegation of powers to the Council of Ministers and to the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) in order to allow intervention to address liquidity or solvency problems of the financial system and to strengthen the capital base and the financial position of financial institutions in Cyprus during periods of financial crisis where, in the absence of such support, these institutions will cause systemic disruptions in the financial system.

London's future as a global financial hub is looking increasingly difficult to sustain. This is due not only to changes in the regulatory environment – sizeable though they may be – but also the macro-economic environment that poses a challenge to the City's status as the world's financial centre

Ana Luisa de Gordillo During the financial crisis of 2007, banks and banking supervisors around the world were reminded of many lessons. One of the causes of the crisis was the deterioration of the capital base of banks; as a consequence, banks were not able to absorb credit losses. Loans are one of the main assets in which banks invest the money they obtain from depositors. Banks are then required to guard these assets from the inherent risk in order to anticipate the consequences of their deterioration. In 2008, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published its principles of sound liquidity, risk management and supervision, and developed a framework aiming to strengthen global capital and liquidity rules for banks. The objective, as stated by the Committee, was to improve the stability of the international banking system aiming at stronger risk management practices.

The completion of take-private transactions in Germany was traditionally lengthy and prone to attack from professional minority shareholders who took advantage of the rule that every shareholder of a German stock corporation can file an action to set aside a shareholder resolution for violation of the law or the articles of association

In 2012 the Greek parliament, under its loan commitments and in coordination with its European partners and the IMF, undertook the obligation to comprehensively review the existing feed-in tariff (FIT) structure and set out a number of alternatives by preparing a plan for the reform of the renewable energy sources support schemes to make them more compatible with market developments and to reduce the pressures on public finances

Local lawyers have warned of the steps foreign sponsors and investors must take to protect future Bolivian mining projects, following the announced nationalisation of Glencore's local tin and zinc mine.

The first public health infrastructure project to be financed in Peru's capital markets received an investment grade rating, in the absence of government guarantees.

Libor is one of the world's most important financial benchmarks. It underpins some $550 trillion in loans, securities and derivatives. Libor-gate will run and run, as it rightly should