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Earlier this year, Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources issued a regulation to regulate the pricing of gas fed into the country's electric generators. PLN, the state's electricity company, is the largest operator of these generators, although the regulation also applies to other electricity producers supplying electricity to PLN.

Another round of consolidation in the Iberian financial sector is expected in 2017. And, if only in terms of the semi-announced and widely discounted merger between Bankia and Banco Mare Nostrum (BMN), this new round does indeed seem likely. More broadly, the present map of institutions, with roughly 15 substantial financial groups (though with remarkable differences in size) is commonly acknowledged as an intermediate stage in the route towards a landscape that will be dominated probably by fewer than 10 groups.

With effect from February 1 2017, new legislation introduced the Public Partners Register (PPR) to replace the existing Beneficial Owners Register.

Make financial markets self-correct again

Roxanne Almaraz The crossover from February into March has seen plenty of partner movement in the US, with Houston replacing Washington DC as a nascent hotspot for lateral moves.

On March 7 2017, the Brazilian federal government released the second phase of the Investment Partnership Programme (Programa de Parceria de Investimentos or PPI) – a governmental programme designed to foster infrastructure by expanding and strengthening the relationship between the government and the private sector.

As far as risk management goes, the term seems almost trivial when applied to Brexit. Getting past the first step – identifying potential hazards and how those scenarios might play out – is difficult. Brexit has no clear form or shape, no step-by-step plan to follow and very little in the way of a timeline, beyond those two years from article 50 being triggered that everyone keeps talking about.

Banks and regulators have reacted impressively to fintech’s rise. Incoming rules and Brexit will challenge them further

The lighter side of the past month in the world of financial law

The Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region is at the centre of a perfect storm. Despite three of the top ten most expensive natural disasters since the 1980s occurring there according to German insurer MunichRe, many countries there have little to no disaster risk financing mechanisms to support recovery and rebuilding efforts after a catastrophic event.