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The committee has intervened in the early stages of negotiations on the basis that the buyer's close ties with China could damage US national security

Speaking to the IIB in DC, Quarles suggested improving the clarity and transparency of the Rule to the benefit of firms and supervisory agencies

The regulator has launched a consultation that could result in making compensation for retail investors easier

Gönenç Gürkaynak and Öznur İnanılır, ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law

Colin Raftery, director of mergers at the CMA, discusses policy developments, priorities and Brexit

On January 15 2018, the Vietnamese government issued Decree 09/2018/ND-CP which came into force on the same day. Decree 09/2018/ND-CP replaced Decree 23/2007/ND-CP in governing trading goods and other directly related activities by foreign investors and foreign-invested companies in Vietnam. Decree 09/2018/ND-CP sheds light on some issues which were not clear under Decree 23/2007/ND-CP, but on the other hand raises doubts on others. There are five takeaways affecting the retail business sector.

For the past two decades, technology has permeated the financial services market. Developing countries such as Costa Rica and its neighbours are being favoured by these emerging fintech startups. Entrepreneurs are focusing on developing financial tech tools in areas such as lending, payments, alternative scoring, data management, digital banking, personal finance management and crowfunding in order to offer a varied and accessible range of services for different market segments.

As of January 1 2018, a new long-term interest rate for loans granted by the Brazilian National Economic and Social Development Bank (Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social or BNDES), known as TLP, is in force.

In recent years, international email fraud cases have been occurring all over the world, where persons in the guise of trading partners contact companies by email using email addresses and domain names that closely resemble the official ones of such actual trading partners. Typically, the emails give false notices and instructions stating that the bank accounts for the remittance of purchase prices, for example, have changed. There are some cases where Japanese bank accounts are designated as the new remittance accounts in such notices and instructions.

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has issued a notification to entities it regulates and to participants in the market in general of the consultation process regarding a proposed amendment of the EU prudential rules for investment firms.