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By the beginning of 2011, significant innovations in financial and technological products were happening in El Salvador

Late last year, President Joko Widodo’s administration issued a government regulation clarifying the rights of foreigners to own properties in Indonesia

On March 21 2016, the Macau Special Administrative Region (Macau SAR) Legislative Assembly unanimously approved the first reading of a Bill that proposes the establishment of a counter-terrorist asset freezing regime, as part of the fight against terrorism and the widespread use of weapons of mass destruction

Panama is enviably located at the heart of the Americas, and has enjoyed sustained growth over the last decade

Qatar Central Bank (QCB) recently issued a Board Resolution (the Resolution) restricting the ownership of shares in listed financial institutions

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.