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Diversity; a source of richness, even in the financial world Europe's covered bond community breathed a collective sigh of relief last month following Commissioner Hill's suggestion that he is not seeking a single rulebook for the asset class.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's (BCBS) latest framework for the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book has failed to allay the concerns of US counsel about a potential negative impact on market liquidity.

This latest instalment of Corporate Governance Quarterly analyses a Delaware ruling that revisits the Revlon rule. It could change the way boards sell their companies

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.

Ed Batts Penelope Jensen It's shaping up as a year of aggressive lateral hiring by US corporate firms. ORRICK HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE scored a coup with the appointment of Ed Batts as global co-head of its M&A and private equity practices based in the firm's Silicon Valley office.

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.

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

Kelly Naphtali Chinese firm HAIWEN & PARTNERS has recruited Guiping Lu from Latham & Watkins to strengthen its corporate practice and open up in Shenzhen. In Beijing, REED SMITH's energy practice brought in Jie Zhang from Norton Rose Fulbright.

The Superior Court of Justice in Brazil (STJ), the highest court on non-constitutional matters, published 17 summaries of decisions on banking matters on December 30 2015

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