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The green bond market has been developing worldwide in the past decade, financing projects in renewable energy, energy efficiency and other eco-friendly industries combating climate change. In line with the United Nations Environment Programme, the government has approved the country's Green Growth Strategy for 2011 to 2020. As a result, municipal green bonds have been prepared and issued for green projects as pilot programmes in Ho Chi Minh City and Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province since 2016. According to Vietstock, the Vietnamese bond market gained an average annual growth of 24% per year for the period of 2011 to 2016 and mobilised VND2,000,000,000,000,000 ($86 billion) in 2017, equivalent to 40% of Vietnam's GDP for that year. Since the target revenue gained from the bond market is 65% of the GDP until 2030, there is still room for development of the Vietnamese bond market, including green bonds.

The US regulator’s decision to step into the already crowded FCPA space comes as a shock to the industry, as it looks to broaden the scope of its enforcement

Transaction reporting, best execution, costs and charges are expected to be key enforcement areas. The UK regulator's market reporting team has already sent a number of letters to banks and fund managers

Debt, equities and FX market participants are pricing in a delay to Brexit following the vote on March 12, as well as preparing the new deal pipeline for the first week of April

It’s the first ever green bond from an issuer in the region that uses the Climate Bonds Initiative framework. Here, issuer AC Energy and its lawyers explain how they did it

The results of the latest Brexit votes will also likely affect whether the rules will be changed, but proposals are considered ‘potentially dangerous’

Researchers and sellside consultants think the mispricing of public sector bonds is mainly the result of “opaque” OTC markets, not evidence of widespread collusion. The EU's new rules have not changed much

The Colombian Financial Conglomerates Law (FCL) came into force on February 6 2019. This watershed moment marks the most important regulatory event for the Colombian financial system in over a decade. The wide powers that the FCL grants the local regulator and supervisor will align the country to international best practices. They will also give way to a framework that reflects the growing complexity, importance and internationalisation of financial conglomerates (FCs).

The CFTC and FCA have taken initial steps to reassure the market on trading and clearing continuity between the UK and US after Brexit, but naturally, questions remain