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The Securities Industry Council (SIC) has announced proposed amendments to Singapore's Takeover Code, following changes to the UK regime in January.

Recent yuan depreciation could be a boon for the Hong Kong Exchanges Group's (HKEx) push into fixed income, currencies and commodities, said CEO Charles Li at an event last month.

Arturo Caraballo The height of summer was a busy time for lateral hiring at US, Canadian and offshore firms. In early August, WEIL GOTSHAL & MANGES bolstered its restructuring practice with the hire of partner Matt Barr in New York. Barr, who joined from Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, advises creditors, debtors, bondholders, funds and shareholders in Chapter 11 and out-of-court restructurings. In the same city, SCHULTE ROTH & ZABEL gained both Boris Ziser and Thomas Weinberger from Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. Ziser, who takes the helm of Schulte's structured products and derivatives practice, works with a myriad of asset classes including loans, leases, cell towers and lottery receivables. Weinberger's background includes work on asset-backed securities, particularly risk-linked securities. He has also engineered fund formations.

On July 8 2015, the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing) Act 2015 was enacted into Irish law

An inaugural issuance of tier 2 bonds has revealed widely-held confidence in the budding asset class. It also creates a structure for others to replicate

In July 2015, the Capital Market and Services (Amendment) Bill 2015 was passed to amend the Capital Market and Services Act 2007 (CMSA)

The Philippines recently enacted Republic Act 10667 or the Philippine Competition Act (Act), which defines, prohibits and penalises anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominant position, and anti-competitive mergers and acquisitions

Recent Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) interventions in the Nigerian forex market have led to criticisms of the apex bank's actions

A major reform of the overall Swiss financial markets regulation is underway. As part of the changes, the draft bill of the new Financial Institutions Act (FIA) will affect licensing of institutions active in investment management

Subordination agreements are frequently used in financing operations as a way to allow the debtor to obtain a subordinated financing from a junior creditor (usually a related party) without deteriorating the senior creditors' position