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Japanese bondholders have reacted strongly to the upcoming presidential elections in France. And if their behaviour on the debt financial markets is anything to go by, then France is headed for trouble. The country's investors have been buying a growing amount of offshore debt in the past year, driven out of their home nation by the bank of Japan's restrictive monetary policy and low – sometimes negative – fixed-rate returns on so-called JGBs. According to Bank of Japan data, they hold JPY 27 trillion ($240 billion) of French bonds, or roughly 11% of their portfolio. Only their US holdings are larger (JPY 122 trillion).

Janney Chong Chinese firm ZHONG LUN has opened its 15th office in China, in Hangzhou, driven by finance partner Yuan Ting. Corporate partner Li Ya and private equity partner Michael Zhang will work alongside Ting with all three partners splitting their time between Hangzhou and Beijing. The new office will provide advice in corporate, finance, restructuring and real estate to clients in Hangzhou and neighbouring areas.

This new asset class may classify as bail-in eligible debt, but teething problems have been felt in several EU jurisdictions

Recent US rules were designed to tackle issues identified in some asset-backed security markets. But it’s still uncertain whether keeping an interest in the securities issued will improve their quality

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.

The revision of law 5/2011, which approved the smoking prevention and control bill, is still pending and, though a full smoking ban in casinos was the initial plan of the Macau government, it may not actually happen after all.

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

While US bond issuers would tend to favour flexibility in devising their covenant packages, investors can also fight back

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.

Hong Kong and Singapore are once again going head-to-head, vying for two of the year's most coveted initial public offerings (IPOs) – Alibaba-backed Ant Financial's $10 billion offering and Saudi Aramco's $100 billion deal.