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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

It's one of the most contentions topics in the US financial regulation sector at the moment: the Senate's financial deregulation bill, which is set to unpick parts of the Dodd-Frank Act. When the Act was passed in 2010, it was hailed as the band aid with would help the financial sector heal and get its strength back.

Italy's election has made the EU's worst fears a reality. The election saw a stunning rejection of the EU and massive support for eurosceptic parties, including the far-right League that became the largest conservative party in Italy. Negotiations are ongoing to form a functioning government and several permutations could arise, but the most probable conclusion politically is a coalition involving the 5 Star Movement, the League and potentially Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia. League has strongly favoured exiting the EU and the euro previously, and taken a hardline stance against immigration, venturing into clear racism on occasions. Just after her election as mayor of Cascina, in Tuscany, Susanna Ceccardi posted a cartoon of a young woman dressed as a Viking kicking a dark-skinned pig dressed in a turban who dropped a Koran, with the words 'wake up Europe' underneath. Since the election campaign began, their stance on the EU has softened somewhat but they are likely to be a big obstacle in any plans to pull member states closer.

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.