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Kemal Aksel and Begum Incecam at Kolcuoglu Demirkan Kocakli give an overview of squeeze-out mechanisms in Turkey, as regulated by the new Communiqué on Squeeze-out and Sell-out Rights

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Carlos Fradique-Mendez María Andrea Estrada Rugeles On March 6 2014, the Colombian Stock Exchange became the fourth stock market in Latin America to adopt a market makers programme (the programme). The programme permits the structuring and implementation of a stockbroker's commitment to buy or sell equity shares, in order to increase liquidity of those shares. BlackRock, general partner of the exchange-traded fund (ETF) iCOLCAP in Colombia, instructed Cititrust (who acts as the ETF's administrator) to enter into an agreement with BTG Pactual Colombia (the market maker), for purposes of providing market-making services to promote the liquidity of the ETF shares. The market maker is required to execute daily transactions on its own behalf, with its own funds and on a permanent basis, entering buy and sell bids over the ETF shares. The agreement was recently approved by the Colombian Stock Exchange, becoming the first market maker in Colombia over equity securities.

Elias Neocleous The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has issued a circular reminding providers of administrative and corporate services (ASPs) that it supervises their reporting obligations under the Law regulating Companies providing Administrative Services and Related Matters of 2012 (the ASP Law). It draws attention to article 11(1)(c) of the ASP Law, which provides that ASPs whose application for a licence is under consideration by CySEC must comply with the requirements of the ASP Law and CySEC Directive D?144-2007-08 of 2012 for the Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (the AML Directive).

Following the Renewable Energy Act 2011 (RE Act) which came into force in December 2011, the implementation of the feed-in tariff (FIT) mechanism under the RE Act has been an overwhelming success. After the FIT mechanism was implemented in Peninsular Malaysia over a period of two years, Malaysia had a cumulative total of 119MW of renewable energy connected to the grid as opposed to only 61.2MW of renewable energy capacity connected to the grid from the implementation of the earlier, small renewable energy power programme, which spanned a period of 10 years.

Daniel Futej Daniel Grigel’ The Slovak Republic is looking to toughen criminal prosecution of corporations. It has proposed a special act be adopted and take effect from May 1 2015 that introduces criminal liability for legal persons. The act's aim is to prevent criminal offences from being concealed behind the activities of corporations, and to penalise corporations that have aided in the commission of a criminal offence. It should be noted that the Slovak Republic is the last of the EU member states to introduce criminal liability for legal persons. However an interim measure was introduced by Slovakia in 2010 that allows the courts to punish a legal person by setting a monetary amount, up to and including the entire assets of that legal person, to be seized. The bill spells out the criminal offences a legal person can be charged with. This includes, inter alia, the endangerment of health through defective food products, endangerment of health through unlicensed medicines, blackmail, illegal construction, endangerment and harm to the environment, bribery, false accusations, and unlawful use of personal data. A legal person is considered criminally liable if a criminal offence is committed in its interests, as a part of or through its activities, and at the same time if it was committed by:

Memet Yazici, managing partner at TRPE Capital, explains why he thinks SMEs are the next big thing in Turkey

A senior partner at Abraaj Group explains the firm’s attitude to the recent volatility in Turkey

Kerem Turunç of TURUNÇ describes some of the recent changes to Turkish securities regulation

Benjamín Valdez Tamayo Enacted in 2007, the Salvadorian Future Flows Securitisation Act (Ley de Titularizacion de Activos) regulates the issue of bonds through the Salvadorian stock exchange, to be paid by future cash flows generated by a specific asset. Since then, future flows securitisation has become a relevant finance option in El Salvador, for private enterprises and public institutions alike; to this date, more than $100 million in bonds have been issued. Among those entities that have accessed funding through this type of offerings are schools, industrial paper plants, the Salvadorian Department of Transportation, and beach side resorts. Technically speaking, future flows securitisation is the process by which an independent estate is incorporated with assets capable of generating future cash flow (for example, lease agreements, decreasing credit lines, the right of government institutions to collect taxes) and whose sole purpose is the payment of principal and interests of publicly issued bonds. In other words, a company issues securities through a stock exchange (thus obtaining funds for a specific business project) which will be repaid, with interest, with the cash flow generated by the securitised asset. A company, duly authorised by the Superintendenciadel Sistema Financiero (the Salvadoran equivalent to the Securities and Exchange Commission) is tasked with the administration of the assets and the cash flow necessary for the payment of the bonds.