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The attention following President Trump's February 3 executive order on financial regulation focused squarely on the clear threats to Dodd-Frank. Understandably so: Trump campaigned on a promise to repeal it, and spent much of his pre-signing briefing bemoaning its (debatable) negative impact on US lending.

China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange (Safe) shocked Hong Kong and mainland Chinese investors by recently allowing onshore PRC investors to participate in Hong Kong IPOs raised by Chinese companies as cornerstones – provided that they agree to a number of conditions.

Carlos Fradique-Méndez María Natalia Rodríguez Colombia's fourth generation infrastructure programme unveiled by the government back in 2013 and further developed in 2015, for the first time formally acknowledged and subtly introduced basic premises of project finance into the legal framework. The ambitious investment targeted intermodal transportation development. Since its structuring stage, it has entailed several alterations both to the applicable regulation and institutional behaviour. The official introduction of this specialised type of financing scheme through the PPP law (1508 of 2012) and infrastructure law (1682 of 2013) has proved its worth by attracting investors with a sophisticated appetite and achieving the closing of the majority of financing agreements.

Asset-backed securities fell out of favour after the financial crisis but they are gradually returning - and evolving

The opening of the country’s corporate debt market has attracted investor interest. But attitudes are different when it comes to offshore and onshore issuances

Oene Marseille Emir Nurmansyah In December 2016, the Indonesian president issued a new regulation paving the way for Indonesia's ministry of finance to provide land procurement funding to projects with national strategic value, but with insufficient funding to complete the necessary land acquisition.

Jose Florante M Pamfilo Recently, the Philippine supreme court voted to deny the petition made in the case of Roy vs Herbosa (GR number 207246) to invalidate SEC Memorandum Circular number 8-2013 (guidelines on compliance with the Filipino-foreign ownership requirements prescribed in the constitution and/or existing laws by corporations engaged in nationalised and partly-nationalised activities) (MC 8-2013) issued by the Philippine securities and exchange commission (SEC).

Ippei Nishiuchi On December 26 2016, the act promoting implementation of specified integrated resort areas – the so-called Japanese 'casino law' – was promulgated and partially came into force. The act mainly aims to set out the fundamental principles and policies concerning the establishment of 'specified integrated resort areas', which are locations certified by the government as areas within which casino facilities can be established. Outside these areas, it will continue to be illegal to operate casinos.

Beatriz Causapé Laura Torrecilla In a context where Spanish banks continue to sell their non-performing loans (NPLs) to reduce the level of their provisions and improve their solvency ratios, several national and regional rules have been approved, and resolutions passed recently in an attempt to protect debtors, who are often in precarious situations.

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