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Food for thought: consolidation of US food delivery market

New York residents often have little time to prepare their own meals. Once or twice a week, they have prepared food delivered to their apartment. There are a number of websites and apps for this, which until fairly recently this reporter believed seemed to be in direct competition with each other – as it turns out, they are largely all one and the same.

September 21 2017

EU banks prepare post-Brexit plan of action

In early September it emerged that fewer than 10 UK-based banks had applied for EU licences to continue trading after Brexit. According to Reuters, the sloth pace is concerning to those at the European Central Bank (ECB), who are beginning to think that either banks are ill-prepared (unlikely), or that there's a loophole in the legislation (slightly more likely).

September 21 2017

South Korea's corruption crackdown

It seems that public officials and corporates everywhere are falling like dominoes on the back on tougher anti-corruption measures taking effect in a number of jurisdictions. Brazil's Clean Company Act has received its fair share of coverage as have India's currency crackdown and the UK's far-ranging Bribery Act. Now South Korea has also been making headlines for all the wrong reasons.

September 21 2017

AI legal challenges in perspective

Automatic and autonomous machines and systems have multiple applications across the financial sector but the regulatory implications cannot be ignored

September 21 2017

China, HK ramp up cross-border cooperation

Both jurisdictions continue to invest heavily in initiatives that support the mutual development of their financial markets

IFLR Correspondent, September 21 2017

Obstacles to Colombia debt market takeoff decrypted

Bond issuances in the Latam nation are rising, but investor confidence needs a further boost

September 21 2017

Slovak Republic: Shareholder-company relationship

A shareholder's interest in a limited liability company is expressed as a membership interest in an amount determined by its capital contribution. A capital contribution (cash or in kind) is understood to be a shareholder's investment in the company, and it becomes the property of the company. Except where capital is reduced when certain legal conditions are met, a shareholder is not entitled to seek return of its capital contribution unless the shareholder is terminating its participation in the company.

September 21 2017

Editorial: Let’s be clear

Rarely has an activity as technical as clearing been the subject of so much passionate debate and discussion. And with Brexit negotiations going nowhere fast, we could be hearing about it for a while longer.

September 21 2017

Head-to-head: should the UK regulator relax listing rules to attract sovereign controlled companies?

Yes

September 21 2017

Americas

Michael Wolf Philadelphia-based BALLARD SPAHR has merged with two law firms in one week: media law firm Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz and Minneapolis-based Lindquist & Vennum, a corporate M&A specialist. The combined firm will have over 650 lawyers in 15 offices US-wide.

September 21 2017

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