The European market for sub-investment grade corporate credit is now well established. This has been driven in large part by the ongoing move towards direct lenders as a growing source of debt financing.

On 27 April 2018, the EU published legislation imposing further restrictive measures on Myanmar/Burma, strengthening the EU's arms embargo and targeting the Myanmar/Burma army ...

Snapshot on the status of implementation of the EU Restructuring Directive in selected Member States and the new English scheme.

In August, the Hong Kong Competition Commission brought proceedings in the Competition Tribunal seeking penalties against ten construction and engineering companies.

The Hong Kong Government has announced that it will provide extra dedicated funding of HKD 200 million (approximately US 25 million)...

The Hong Kong Competition Commission (HKCC) has issued a recommendation that organizations inviting bids for contracts prohibit bidders from communicating with any other person prior to making a bid.

The Personal Data Protection Department is now actively enforcing the PDPA.

On December 11, 2015 an increase to the minimum wages for 2016 was agreed by the National Minimum Wages Commission, with an increase of 4.2% to the general minimum wage and the professional minimum wages.

On 21 March 2018, the Spanish Ministry of Justice issued Ministerial Order 319/2018 which requires Spanish non-listed companies to disclose their ultimate beneficial owners ("UBO") ...

Citizens Advice, a UK charity, raised concerns over automatic increases in credit card limits for individuals already struggling with debt.

There now remains a little over three months before MiFID II takes effect on 3 January 2018. Given the international reach and inter-connectedness of global financial markets, it comes as no surprise...

The UK Senior Managers and Certification Scheme is to be extended in 2018 from deposit-takers and larger investment firms to most FCA-regulated firms.

The UK Senior Managers and Certification Scheme is to be extended in 2018 from deposit-takers and larger investment firms to most FCA-regulated firms.

On 18 October 2017, the "Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill" (the "Bill") was introduced into the House of Lords.

On October 25, 2017, a five-judge Supreme Court unanimously confirmed that the two limb Ghosh test for assessing dishonesty in criminal proceedings should be replaced by a purely objective test.

At the 2017 Fintech Americas held in Miami, Florida on 5-6 October, Samuel Kramer moderated a panel discussion on "CLOUD COMPUTING: Regulatory Realities of Cloud Computing...

What do Cardi B, Jordin Sparks and Alexa PenaVega have in common? If you guessed they each received warning letters from the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") last week, you are correct.

As reported in the July 2017 issue, Vietnam is proposing significant reforms to its Competition Law.

Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft, Filiale Luxemburg, BayernLB, BNP Paribas, CITI, HSBC Bank plc, ING, Raiffeisen Bank International AG, Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking and Standard Chartered Bank and a wider syndicate of international banks extends multi tranche term loan facility to the Industrial Development Bank of Turkey (TSKB) to fund TSKB's project finance-related transactions and its customers' trade finance transactions.

On February 04, 2016, the Energy Regulatory Commission ("CRE") published in the Federal Official Gazette the resolution by which presents the template agreement for the open access connection...