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For a long time the Act on Investment Aid in the Slovak Republic has regulated investment aid provided by the state budget to domestic and foreign entrepreneurs and investors. Investment aid may be provided in the following forms: financial grants from the state budget; income tax relief; grants for newly established employment positions or transfer of state property to the entrepreneur for a price lower than the given market price. Entrepreneurs can obtain investment aid in some of the listed forms for a project in one of the supported areas. The supported areas are: industrial production; technological centres; and, centres of strategic services and tourism. Providing investment aid for these areas was changed by extensive amendments to the Act on Investment Aid in force since May 1 2013.

A fragmented regulatory framework, relationship-based lending and legal restrictions have hindered the development of China’s debt capital markets

How to use Europe’s first model block transaction agreements, and how they will benefit the market

It is hard not to wonder if Standard & Poor's (S&P) has been gloating through the latest US debt ceiling fiasco.

Just another example of one size not fitting all The implementation of a single supervisory mechanism (SSM) in Europe could provoke an over-simplification of prudential regulation in the region, an Association for Financial Markets in Europe (Afme) advisor and non-executive director has warned. The SSM mechanism transfers responsibility for approximately 130 of the biggest European-based banks from eurozone national authorities to the European Central Bank (ECB). The Bank will also be responsible for the overall oversight of prudential supervision in the eurozone.

The $24.9 billion leveraged buyout (LBO) of the US IT company Dell, by its founder Michael Dell and the private equity firm Silver Lake Management, completed in September following months of negotiations.

Oene Marseille Emir Nurmansyah The Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources has recently issued the second amendment to Rule 7 of 2012 regarding Increasing Mineral Resources Value Through Processing and Refining (Rule 7), in the form of Rule 20 of 2013 (the second amendment). The second amendment effectively put a date on the ban, which is now set at January 12 2014. Previously, the export ban, which was set at May 2013, was lifted through the first amendment to Rule 7, with the condition of obtaining several requirements including the recommendation of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources. The second amendment added another requirement to the list: the recommendation for the Ministry of Trade, or an appointed government official in accordance with the prevailing regulations.

Alternative credit providers are facing a laundry list of new restrictions to ensure they aren’t the root of the next crisis. This month’s three-part cover story looks at the key issues in the global shadow banking debate

On July 22 2013, the new EU regime on licensing and supervision of alternative investment funds (AIFs) took effect, as Delegated Regulation (231/2013) supplementing the Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers (2011/61/EU) (the AIFMD) entered into force. Cyprus had already transposed the AIFMD into national law earlier in July, in the form of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Law of 2013 (Law 56(I) of 2013: the AIFM Law).

John Breslin The Irish Parliament passed the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 (the Act) in December 2012, as part of its commitment to reform key areas of Irish law in the context of troika funding. It is being implemented over the course of 2013, and is not yet fully in force. The Act represents a major reform of personal insolvency law, creating new processes as an alternative to bankruptcy. The suitability of any of the new processes in a given situation will depend on the level of the debt, and whether it is secured or unsecured. The Act also makes fundamental changes to bankruptcy law in Ireland. It has significant implications for banks holding or purchasing distressed assets. The highlights of the Act are as follows: