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EU derivatives legislation may fall short of delivering a cohesive regime

On July 5 2017, the Swiss Federal Council (Bundesrat) amended the Swiss Federal Banking Ordinance to ease the Swiss regulatory framework for providers of innovative financial technologies (fintech).

A pressing issue in Japan is the ageing population combined with the diminishing birth rate. The Japanese government has been in the dark on how to handle these two elements. At first glance, these two concerns appear to present conflicting demands, namely (i) expanding health and medical services for the elderly, while at the same time; and (ii) minimising the use of public funds for those health and medical services, as a means of tackling the issue. Therefore, in order to deal with this problem, the Japanese government has drawn attention to the use of private resources, such as private funds, including Japanese real estate investment trusts (J-Reits), to provide sufficient monetary resources to the health and medical care industries through the acquisition of their assets.

Local financial institutions have started carrying out due diligence on customers’ tax residency as devised by the CRS. But some questions still remain

The ambitious long-term infrastructure development plans of Middle Eastern governments and related funding requirements, together with sustained low oil prices and the resulting volatility in regional liquidity, may finally have produced the right climate for Islamic securitisation to grow