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As a result of the election ban under the Philippine Omnibus Election Code, prospective private partners (both local and foreign) have been cautious in participating in public biddings for public-private partnership (PPP) projects scheduled to be held within the 45-day period preceding the May 9 2016 elections (the election ban period)

The Securities and Futures Commission's (SFC) move to deregulate Hong Kong's budding exchange-traded funds (ETF) market is welcome, but limits on passporting have drawn criticism.

Any economy, over time and taken as a whole, looks great. That's the unassailable assertion of capitalism. Yes developed economies, and the world economy, are still prone to worrying imbalances. But didn't we all once live in wattle and daub hovels, surrounded by our precious chickens (for barter) and our even more precious broad swords (for self-defence)? As a result, it's understandable that those raised on modern growth theory – that demand is endless and things will get better over time – are fond of an aggregate approach. That is, by the way, pretty much everyone.

So much talk from the top today is about regulatory convergence. Since long before the crisis, far-reaching, global rules have been set with the idea of bringing markets closer together. There's a school of thought that fully supports having the same rules set by the same rulemakers, from Ottawa to Auckland.

Competition enforcement – or lack of it – has become somewhat of a running joke in the UK over the past two years. Since April 2014, when the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) launched with considerable enforcement powers to boot, corporates have escaped largely unscathed.

China has unleashed an onslaught against its billions of non-performing loans (NPL), which have permeated much of its banking system. With major state-owned banks saddled with piles of distressed debt, Beijing has pulled out all the stops to extinguish the circulation of soured loans within the national financial system.

Is the Fed’s approach to capital inspired by the tailoring trade? The Federal Reserve is upgrading its 2016 stress test for large financial institutions to include the Basel Committee's principles on risk-data aggregation and reporting.

The move by China's central bank to allow direct RMB-US dollar conversion in three free trade zones (FTZs) is widely seen as a step forward, but quota limits and unclear rules have drawn criticism.

Which revenues should trigger an antitrust filing? Talk of a new European Commission (EC) filing threshold based on transaction value has faced early pushback from industry and lawyers, warning it would muddy bright-line tests and add to today's web of merger approval processes.

Liz Soutter Mark O’Neill Peter Wand In Paris the biggest news was ORRICK HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE swooping for a team from Freshfields. Patrick Tardivy, a corporate specialist, along with finance partners Herve Touraine and Emmanuel Ringeval all join the US firm.