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Myanmar: Regulating financial institutions

Myanmar’s new Financial Institutions Law (FIL) came into force on January 25 2016

March 21 2016

Transport services, including logistics services, have been opened by Vietnam under its 2007 Specific Commitments in Services to the World Trade Organisations (WTO commitments)

March 21 2016

Banking system in Nigeria concept. 3D rendering

Nigeria: Administering government accounts

The establishment of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy by President Muhammadu Buhari is a particular revolution in public finance administration as well as commercial banking

IFLR Correspondent, March 21 2016

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Qatar: Understanding guarantees

Like most jurisdictions in the Middle East and North Africa, Qatar has adopted the civil law system

Rafiq Jaffer, March 21 2016

Philippines: New foreign investment rules

President Aquino recently issued the Tenth Regular Foreign Investment Negative List (FINL)

March 21 2016

Asia Pacific

In Australia, independent HWL EBSWORTH recruited technology partner Josh Messing from Herbert Smith Freehills. In other news MINTER ELLISON lured away a pair of M&A partners Con Boulougouris and Wissam Abwi from Norton Rose Fulbright.

March 21 2016

Americas

Lorraine Tyson Jolina Cuaresma GREENBERG TRAURIG had a busy month in the US, hiring investment fund and advisory of counsel Christopher McHugh from the SEC in Washington, DC alongside corporate and securities specialist Christopher Machera from Goldman Sachs in New York. The firm also hired corporate and project finance partners Michael Robson (Chapman & Cutler) and Lorraine Tyson (Pugh Jones & Johnson) in Chicago.

March 21 2016

Europe: The $12 billion standoff

After Italy's long-awaited plan for resolving its chronic non-performing loan (NPL) problem was made public in January, the too-big-to-fail debate has firmly regained its place in the spotlight – if it ever went away in the first place.

March 21 2016

Asia Pacific: Pulling punches

Thailand has been shaken to its core lately by one of the country's biggest, most egregious insider trading scandals in recent decades. But insider trading is not a new phenomenon in Thailand. And it would be unwise to assume this exposé will bring about a palpable change.

March 21 2016

Editorial: P2P ABS: saviour or desperation?

Rumours of Europe's first marketplace-lending securitisation gathered pace last month. The instrument, which securitises loans made on voguish peer-to-peer lending platforms is already doing business in the US, and has been since 2013. On the one hand, the logic for such an instrument in Europe is clear: The European Commission is determined to kick-start the securitisation market and any so-called marketplace ABS would certainly offer welcome volumes, albeit relatively small ones.

March 21 2016

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