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Faced with the effects of President Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods and an economic slowdown, the PRC has encouraged local governments to increase support for infrastructure spending

The Commission’s proposal to introduce sovereign bond-backed securities fails to fully address their regulatory treatment as securitisations

IFLR’s latest poll examines the good, the bad and possible areas of improvement for the Bond and Stock Connect initiatives

The Irish legislature is considering draft legislation which would regulate purchasers of non-performing loans (NPLs). The draft legislation is at an advanced stage in the parliamentary process. While credit servicers are regulated in Ireland, credit owners (in the main, entities that have purchased loans and loan portfolios from banks looking to reduce their exposure to NPLs) are not. However, the regulation of owners of credit would be a substantial extension of the regime. Furthermore, it would run contrary to EU policy in this area which proposes to regulate credit servicers (as is the existing position in Ireland) but deliberately stops short of regulating loan owners because such an extension is neither necessary nor desirable.

In the US, British Virgin Islands-based O'Neal Webster opened a representative office in New York.

According to the implementation plan released in November 2018, terms of reference (TORs) have been issued for six projects, and 'contract awarded' notices are tentatively scheduled for February 2019.

It's nearly the end of a very active and exciting year for financial regulation, a year marked by the entry into force of the so-called alphabet soup: Priips, Mifid II and GDPR, to name a few.

Pierre-Alain Bouhénic Maryna Hritsyshyna In Belgium, Ukrainian firm Asters, which earlier this year hired most of Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners' Kyiv office, became the first firm from its country to open in Brussels, launching a representative office in the city.

The discovery of pre-salt reservoirs in Brazil dramatically increased the country's oil reserves. There was hope that oil would fund education, health, and infrastructure, but these hopes proved to be unfounded.

A survey by Hengeler Mueller has found that a majority of respondents reported an increase in the bureaucratic requirements associated with the EU regulation