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Investment research: push and pull

The recent coming into effect of Mifid II is redefining how the sell and buy-sides deal with investment data

January 26, 2018

A second wind

In the February 2018 cover story, IFLR discusses how upcoming elections in a number of Latam nations could unsettle the equity and debt capital markets

John Crabb, January 26, 2018

Sooner or later

Banks have not been able to engage in proprietary trading since the financial crisis. But reform could be on the cards, says Tom Quaadman, executive vice president of the US Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness

January 26, 2018

BEPS imposes new reality for companies

The OECD/G20 led project aims to limit choices limit choices of companies as to where they can locate and how they can structure their activities

January 26, 2018

Controlling shareholder: friend or foe?

US courts are progressively shifting their analysis to the process by which a transaction is approved, leaving behind fear of these investors' influence

David Bernstein, January 26, 2018

DEAL: first Malaysian sukuk to monetise real estate project billings

Ahead of the curve A Malaysian company has issued the first sukuk backed by future payments made on real estate projects

January 26, 2018

Vietnam: Banking system restructuring legislation

As one of Vietnam's efforts to strengthen the national banking system, which has been unstable in recent times, on November 20 2017 the National Assembly introduced a new law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the 2010 Law on Credit Institutions (Amended LOCI). The new law came into effect on January 15 2018.

January 26, 2018

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Ireland: Banking officer responsibility

The Irish Central Bank (CBI), in common with other EU regulators, will be focused in 2018 on intensified supervision of anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist finance compliance, data protection, and ensuring banks and other regulated institutions have robust cyber security systems. However, in Ireland another area is emerging. This is the question of individual responsibility for increased regulatory scrutiny by directors and senior managers for regulatory breaches by their institution.

John Breslin, January 26, 2018

POLL: are Asian firms ready for GDPR?

With five months to go until the regulation goes live, how are businesses in Asia doing when it comes to compliance?

Karry Lai, January 26, 2018

Macau: Electronic payment systems

The development of communication media, especially mobile devices with internet access, has led to the appearance and rapid growth of several new types of electronic payment services. In particular, as technology advances, software applications that can be used from mobile devices have quickly developed as easy, reliable and secure platforms from which to perform payment transactions, thus increasingly gaining popularity among consumers and retailers.

January 26, 2018

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