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Counsel in the US are examining new rules on margin requirements for uncleared swaps. While the rules will boost counterparty risk management, they may also negatively impact the availability of collateral, boost shadow banking and increase transatlantic regulatory arbitrage.

Perry Yam Austrian boutique RAUTNER announced the hire of its second partner in February. Meera Ramakrishnan, who joined from the Law Office of Dr F Schwank, will advise on banking and finance, corporate and M&A and real-estate matters.

When should a EU directive become a regulation? Some think it's a question worth asking about the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD). Attention has certainly been drawn to the directive since Bank of Portugal's (BoP) December write down of Novo Banco's senior bond tranches.

When the Central Bank of Myanmar (CBM) announced its second round of foreign bank licensing last December, many were shocked by the pace of the country's liberalisation. But whether their astonishment was a remnant of euphoria from the National League's landslide election victory, or dizziness from a sudden revocation of all foreign exchange licences, was anyone's guess. While some domestic and foreign banks have questioned the government's seemingly overzealous quest for foreign investment, with the first round having taken place just a year prior, others have begun to feel the pinch of reality.

The transatlantic transition is not always straightforward. But as Travers Smith's Charles Bischoff, Danny Peel and Jamie Parish explain, it looks set to continue

Colombia’s fourth generation of toll-road projects, which the government initially launched in 2013, has started to materialise over the past two years

In December 2015 the Cyprus Ministry of Finance issued a Decree implementing the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development’s (the OECD) Common Reporting Standard (CRS) and the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement on the Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information (MCAA)

Multinationals are still pouring into the region. Winston & Strawn's Zoe Ashcroft explains why a joint venture's structural foundation is key to its success

The new law on the budgetary framework was presented before the Legislative Assembly of Macau (the Assembleia Legislativa, or the AL) on January 29 2016

On January 1 2016, the Act on the Use of Numbers to Identify a Specific Individual in the Administrative Procedure (the so-called My Number Act) came into full force