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Maria Sagrado and Yanuar Pribadhie, of Makarim & Taira S., discuss the country’s central bank’s regulatory sandbox initiative for fintech players

Yuri Suzuki and Takafumi Ochiai of Atsumi & Sakai look at efforts made by the financial and tax regulator to tackle digital currencies

One component of the EU's Capital Markets Union project is to ensure that securitisations are carried out in a transparent and risk-reflective manner, and that they are of high quality. As with many other financial instruments, this more cautious approach is a direct reaction to practices that were brought to light by the financial crisis.

IFLR speaks with Morrison & Foerster partner Susan Gault-Brown and of counsel James Schwartz on the poll results and what to expect next for the Volcker Rule

There are very few people who are willing to discuss the pending mega merger between American publically traded agro biotech company Monsanto, and the German megalithic life science and pharma company Bayer. The deal is worth a reported $66 billion and has unsurprisingly piqued the interest of antitrust agencies across the world.

Crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending have been on the EU Commission's radar for a while. Until recently, the position was 'no-action required'. However, the growing relevance of the market led the Commission to issue a proposal for the regulation of European crowdfunding service providers for business (the Regulation) on March 8 2018. This regulation focuses on crowdfunding for the funding of business (hence, excluding crowdfunding for social projects).

Private enterprises, including foreign-invested companies, rely on contracting arrangements to optimise their business by farming out work for tasks which could be more efficiently carried out by third parties. A contracting arrangement exists when an entity, known as the principal, farms out work to a contractor. The work is carried out by the contractor's employees who are governed by employment contracts with the contractor.

The Latin American region and the infrastructure industry have been making the headlines after recent investigations and exemplary sanctions on corruption-related scandals that have even overthrown governments. Colombia has not been immune from this situation: this has encouraged regulators to acelerate efforts to criminalise behaviours related to compliance risks especially corruption, bribery, money laundering and financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), and antitrust.

The Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) recently published its 2017 annual report. It is essential reading for Irish finance services regulatory advisers, and for any entity with a business presence in Ireland in the banking and financial services sector.

The existing labour shortage is providing fertile ground for the establishment of new unions, or the strengthening of the position of existing ones, and many employers find themselves facing this prospect. The establishment of a trade union is a relatively simple process which, when combined with the prevailing situation in the job market, has contributed to the fact that trade unions are cropping up around Slovakia often only as a form of bullying employers. Increasingly we are encountering cases where the persons who establish these unions do not even actually work for the particular employer where the union is being formed. These people select companies based mainly on their economic performance and then send out mass mailings to employers informing them that a union has been established in their workplace, often stating unreasonable and even absurd demands. They have no knowledge of the conditions at play at any employer, and only afterwards do they try to recruit the workers as members of the union. There has not yet been established a cohesive and effective form of defence against these practices.