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Joseph Kim, Hogan Lovells BINGHAM MCCUTCHEN may have lost 25 partners globally over the past few weeks, but its Hong Kong office benefited from the arrival of corporate partners Matthew Puhar and Charles Rogers. KIRKLAND & ELLIS's Hong Kong practice also strengthened its Asia corporate practice by bringing in Ropes & Gray private equity expert Gary Li. DLA Piper in Singapore lost capital markets expert and India head Biswajit Chatterjee to SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS, a week after the firm saw the exit of Asia head Bob Charlton to BERWIN LEIGHTON PAISNER in Hong Kong as its new head of Asia and managing partner.

The region’s governments are easing regulations to improve consumer and SMEs’ access to credit. For foreign investors, the changes create access to an untapped market

Banks should have longer to implement margin requirements on uncleared swaps

The European high-yield market continues to spread. But new issuers mean new problems

The insolvency law celebrated its tenth birthday this year. Andi Kadir of Hadiputranto Hadinoto & Partners analyses how the process has changed since it was passed?

Recent judicial decisions have revived concerns around the enforceability of English contracts in Indonesia. Ashurst's Joel Hogarth explains how to protect yourself

Cleary Gottlieb's Andrew Shutter and Sui-Jim Ho explain how lawyers and lawmakers are finding new ways to make debt instruments subject to majority rule

Widespread defaults by Indian borrowers have prompted banks to find new ways to recover debt. Verus's Krishnayan Sen explains how they are invoking the RBI Master Circular

B y the time you read this, you'll be living in a single supervisory world. On November 4 the European Central Bank (ECB), under the auspices of its Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) will become fully responsible for 130 eurozone banks, and some non-eurozone member states too.

Since the onset of the financial crisis, the tightening of regulation to strengthen and protect the global banking system has been a constant source of debate. The critical question posed by politicians, regulators and the general public is where to strike the balance between security and flexibility.