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Moves to bring local regimes in line with western frameworks have received a lukewarm response

Rupert Wall Didier Fornoni Guillaume Ansaloni Alexander Behrens

Ning Zhang Firms have been making moves to bolster their Greater China corporate practices over the past month. WEIL GOTSHAL lured Charles Ching to Shanghai from the Hong Kong office of Freshfields. O'Melveny & Myers' partner Ning Zhang departed for ORRICK in Beijing. EVERSHEDS strengthened its corporate team in Hong Kong through the hire of Charles Butcher from Hogan Lovells. Also in the city-state, CLEARY GOTTLIEB STEEN & HAMILTON hired capital markets expert Shuang Zhao from Shearman & Sterling.

Anti-corruption initiatives and liberalised energy sectors have improved investment prospects. Recent deals reveal which changes are the most effective

Should the US government step in to regulate share buybacks? For the business community and investors, it may be a step too far. But with US elections focussing on middle class needs and wage disparities, promises to govern when companies can – and can't – engage in share repurchases might come front and centre.

The European Commission’s Jonathan Faull has been the driving force behind its Capital Markets Union. Here he discusses the initiative, how to fix securitisation and why regulatory silos aren’t a European problem

The second connection between Hong Kong and China's equity markets is ready internally, Hong Kong Exchanges (HKEx) CEO Charles Li has confirmed. But it's still in the regulatory pipeline.

A Resolution was passed last July in an effort to transform market access for local and foreign companies willing to list their securities on the Colombian Stock Exchange and the Securities Trading System for Foreign Securities

The Cyprus government recently announced a number of tax incentives aimed at encouraging economic activity and attracting inward direct investment

A recent report reveals what has turned it off A PricewaterhouseCoopers report has revealed the primary causes of illiquidity in global fixed income markets. The cumulative impact of post-crisis regulations is a major culprit. Released on August 12, the report was commissioned by the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA) and Institute of International Finance. While banks are better capitalised than ever before, the knock-on effect has seen liquidity in the secondary bond market fall sharply since mid-2014.