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

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

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

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

Matthew Cox Leila Hubeaut Between December 2017 and January 2018 several international firms scaled back their EMEA networks. Norton Rose Fulbright closed offices in Abu Dhabi and Almaty in this period, relocating its staff in the former office to Dubai and exiting Kazakhstan entirely. The firm's Almaty team have established a new local law practice, KM & Partners.

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.

Brazilian law provides that foreigners can only acquire or lease rural properties if previously authorised by the National Institute of Rural Settlement and Agrarian Reform (INCRA). The same restrictions apply to foreign controlled Brazilian companies. The limitations were imposed on the premise that the acquisition or leasing of large rural areas by foreigners (directly or via local subsidiaries), mainly for agribusiness or mining activities, must be restricted to protect Brazilian sovereignty as regards the country's land and natural resources.

A new regulation in Colombia has the potential to dramatically improve the Colombian financing landscape. The Colombian Central Bank recently began allowing foreign entities to lend Colombian pesos to local entities. Before that, foreign loans could only be extended in foreign currency with the corresponding foreign exchange risk (subject to the ability of arraigning for peso-linked facilities).

The revised rules could trigger a huge shift in banks’ business models

Custodians are already seeing a shift away from standard fixed income collateral for phase four and five firms. They’re now concerned that international legal differences in what’s eligible will slow the process