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Takeshi Mukawa and Win Naing, MHM Yangon

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Gonyi Ajawin, Nairobi-based counsel for Berkeley Energy, urges renewable energy sector participants in Sub-Saharan Africa to work closer together to unlock potential

All the key takeaways from IFLR's January 23 London event in one place

It's been a year since Donald Trump first took office, and there has been much discussion about how successfully he has implemented his campaign promises

Non-EU/EFTA buyers of German targets need to be aware of new notification obligations regarding certain foreign investment transactions in the member state

China has been stepping up its efforts to tighten regulations to rein in financial risks. The latest moves include strengthening lending regulation for online microloans by banning unlicensed operations and setting borrowing limits. These cash loans typically charge high interest rates and are targeted towards those with limited access to credit, poor credit history and/or who need access to funds quickly. There are over 2,500 online platforms providing short-term loans to 10 million users in China with loans in this sector totalling in excess of RMB1 trillion ($155 billion).

Japanese internet services company GMO Group has announced that it will start paying a proportion of the salaries of those employees that agree to it in bitcoin.

Brian McKenna In Australia it was announced in December that Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) and Henry Davis York (HDY) would merge under the NRF banner. HDY's managing partner Michael Greene is now deputy managing partner in Australia at his new firm and national head of the government practice. The move follows a similar merger for NRF recently with Chadbourne & Parke.

Like other European countries, Spain has not fully developed the regulation to implement the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) by January 3 2018.