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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A plan to allow Chinese lenders to engage directly in debt-to-equity swaps to dispose of the country's $614 billion of bad loans has been met with scepticism.
  • PINSENT MASONS has moved to take a bigger stake in Australia's legal market just one year after opening. The UK firm has hired infrastructure specialist Margaret Cole from White & Case and partner Anthony Arrow from Allens.
  • Scott Barshay Paul Downs Clearly the biggest move in the US last month was corporate partner Scott Barshay's departure from Cravath Swaine & Moore to PAUL WEISS RIFKIND WHARTON & GARRISON. Barshay joined the partnership in 1998 and has acted on significant matters such as the merger of Kraft and Heinz, and Anheuser-Busch InBev's acquisition of SABMiller.
  • The Brazilian government has been promoting several measures to remove investment barriers and develop the country’s business environment
  • If a controversial ruling that jeopardises securitisation and loan sales isn’t reversed, US credit will become much more expensive. Squire Patton Boggs' Don Lamson explains why