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Beneficial ownership could be answer to AML in Indonesia

Businesses have to provide the government with information on their beneficial owners. Multiple layers of rules make it difficult

Karry Lai, April 11 2018

US regulators seek to recalibrate bank capital rules for G-Sibs

Both the Fed and the OCC have suggested tailoring the approach to each firm's risk profile

John Crabb, April 13 2018

Merger reverse break fees are here to stay

Break fees in the UK were banned five years ago but their counterpart remains, a sign of the seller-friendly market conditions

April 12 2018

Slovak Republic: Changes on employing foreigners

An amendment to the act on employment services slated to enter into force on May 1 2018 will have a substantial impact on the employment of third country nationals.

March 27 2018

Philippines: Foreign participation in construction/ property

The Philippine government is aggressively advancing the acceleration of infrastructure and development of industries that will yield robust growth across the Philippines. Infrastructure projects are among the top priorities of the government with public spending on infrastructure projects targeted to reach between PHP8 trillion and PHP9 trillion ($154 billion to $173 billion) between 2017 and 2022.

March 27 2018

Portugal: Mifid II implementation status

Although full implementation of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (Mifid II) in Portugal is expected to occur very soon, the truth is that market players already hold sufficient tools and comply with enough EU regulations to assess internal policies and procedures to make them compliant with the Mifid II requirements.

March 27 2018

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Spain: PIC highways programme

In July 2017, the Spanish government announced the Extraordinary Road Investment Plan (Plan Extraordinario de Inversión en Carreteras or PIC). This plan involves investing €5 billion ($6.2 billion) to construct 2,000 km of highways over a four-year period (2017 to 2021).

Jaime De la Torre, March 27 2018

Priips: industry begs Commission to clarify scope

This week's news from Practice Insight: inside the letter sent to the EC on Priips scope, banks warn others against becoming too relaxed on CCP relocation, and Mifid firms' LEI drive runs out of steam

April 13 2018

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