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Regulation and risk management expert Bozena Gulija assesses the Basel Committee’s progress so far and highlights key challenges ahead

Is it possible for the "vampire squid" of social networks to solve the global unbanked problem?

The Democrat candidate most likely to shake things up for IFLR readers has had her eye on financial services for a while now

Ahead of the International Bar Association’s annual conference in Seoul, South Korea in September, we look at the most influential dealmakers across the Asia Pacific region

IFLR collaborates with Practice Insight to gauge market sentiment on the secured overnight financing rate's progress as the NY Fed looks to replace USD Libor

Name Country Moved from Moved to Practice area Shane Bilardi Australia Norton Rose Fulbright DLA Piper Corporate and M&A Andrew Fisken Australia Norton Rose Fulbright DLA Piper Corporate and M&A Chris Mitchell Australia Norton Rose Fulbright DLA Piper Corporate and M&A Jyoti Singh Australia Norton Rose Fulbright DLA Piper Corporate and M&A James Stewart Australia Norton Rose Fulbright DLA Piper Corporate and M&A Peter Doyle Australia King & Wood Mallesons Gilbert + Tobin Banking and finance, Project development, Project finance Elias Stephen Australia Minter Ellison Gilbert + Tobin Banking and finance, Real estate Cheryl Weston Australia Eakin McCaffery Cox Piper Alderman Restructuring and insolvency Eric Lin China Simmons & Simmons Reed Smith Corporate and M&A, Project development Michael Padarin Hong Kong Walkers Carey Olsen Investment funds Michael Yu Hong Kong Sidley Austin Cooley Capital markets Guiping Lu Hong Kong Haiwen & Partners K&L Gates Capital markets Max Hua Hong Kong Haiwen & Partners Shearman & Sterling Capital markets Tanya Wadhawan India Athena Legal Anand and Anand Corporate and M&A Richa Roy India N/A Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Restructuring and insolvency Amit Charan India SNG & Partners HSA Advocates Banking and finance Gaurav Sahay India Kochhar & Co HSA Advocates Corporate and M&A Siddharth Raja India Argus Partners Saakshya Law Corporate and M&A Pallavi Gopinath Aney Singapore Baker McKenzie Allen & Overy Capital markets Dominic Gregory Singapore Ashurst Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner Banking and finance Vincent Seah Singapore Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer DLA Piper Banking and finance Gerard Ng Singapore RHTLaw Taylor Wessing Eversheds Harry Elias Banking and finance Erlene Tan Singapore RPC Premier Law Withers KhattarWong Restructuring and insolvency Troy Schooneman Thailand AC Investment Partners Kudun and Partners Corporate and M&A Prisna Sungwanna Thailand Chandler MHM Tilleke & Gibbins Corporate and M&A Troy Schooneman Thailand AC Investment Partners Kudun and Partners Corporate and M&A Prisna Sungwanna Thailand Chandler MHM Tilleke & Gibbins Corporate and M&A

Like most financial engineering techniques, securitisation is not without risk. The complexity inherent in securitisation can impair investors' ability to monitor risk, and competitive securitisation markets are prone to sharp declines in underwriting standards. Furthermore, off-balance sheet accounting treatment for securitisations coupled with guarantees from the issuer can make it challenging to assess exposures, encouraging issuers to take on excessive credit risk. Even the most ardent advocates of securitisation would accept that securitisation played an important role in the US subprime mortgage crisis that led to the global financial crisis of 2008.

A draft law amending some articles of the Law on Investment 2014 and the Law on Enterprises 2014 (the Business Laws) has been in the making since mid-2018. The draft law is scheduled to be presented to the National Assembly in its eighth meeting session for review and feedback. Following that, it will be further updated for promulgation in the National Assembly's ninth meeting session which will be held in mid-2020.

The special act requiring entities that do business with the government to register in a special register of public sector partners (the register) – and to disclose their beneficial owners – has been in force in Slovakia for almost two and a half years. It is known informally as the anti-shell company act. This act was so innovative that it was only a matter of time before the sponsor of the act – the government of the Slovak Republic – would prepare a substantial amendment. Such an amendment was passed on June 27 2019.

Ever since the Republic of Nicaragua became a member of the Financial Action Task Force of Latin America (GAFILAT), Nicaragua has experienced a gradual, yet impactful, overhaul in its provisions regarding prevention, detection and criminalisation of activities involving money laundering and financing of terrorism.