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Hong Kong is set to shelve its ban on dual class shares to attract new economy companies. Other exchanges are following suit

Just three months since implementation, Mifid II has already prompted both buy and sellside firms to change their approach to investment research. Many banks have already scaled back their offerings, while independent providers have experienced significant growth. Consolidation is inevitable, but in the meantime a price war among sellside firms may prompt regulatory intervention

With little progress made on the non-EU passport regime under AIFMD, managers are now being forced to turn to the long-term option of re-domiciling funds

The World Bank's $1.36 billion catastrophe bond is a capital markets first for Chile, Colombia and Peru

The market is just as competitive as before the crisis but with added awareness of risk

While this could be positive development, issues of cross-border applicability and governance analysis need to be ironed out

Wide-ranging financial regulation has caused many to take alternative career routes and this could have a counter-productive impact on industry compliance: http://bit.ly/2GAhw8j

Since September 21 2017, the Colombian regulatory authorities have focused their efforts on enacting regulations that provide supervision to financial conglomerates and demand certain financial and corporate governance standards from the companies and the vehicles involved in the composition of such groups.

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has issued a circular notifying issuers of securities which are listed for trading on the Cyprus Stock Exchange or any other regulated market of its priority issues for financial statements and annual reports for 2017. CySEC's priority issues are identical to those set out in the latest Public Statement on European Common Enforcement Priorities published by the European Securities and Markets Authority (Esma). The Public Statement sets out the priorities jointly agreed by national supervisory authorities of the countries of the European Economic Area in relation to financial statements for the year 2017 regarding the implementation of international financial reporting standards (IFRS), with the objective of achieving consistency in the application of the IFRS in Europe.

Over two months in, and the new rules are not having the impact they were initially expected to