The nature of global trade is constantly evolving. The world's population continues to increase, emerging markets are maturing and developed economies' appetite for materials, goods and services shows no signs of slackening.

An engaging panel of global members of the shipping industry discuss regulatory and geopolitical developments.

This bulletin provides an update to our 19 May 2020 bulletin, COVID-19 Hong Kong: Guide to the Insurance Authority's Temporary Facilitative Measures

The Hong Kong government hopes that enterprises now considering setting up their own captive insurers will look to Hong Kong as an alternative to the Singapore market.

The Hong Kong Insurance Authority (IA), an independent statutory body, has taken over regulatory control for insurance intermediaries.

With a view to use technology to enhance transparency and digitally empower the stakeholders, the Indian Copyright Office has released four notifications over the last two months informing...

The P5+1 and Iran have announced that the Joint Plan of Action, which was due to expire tomorrow, has been extended until 7 July 2015.

On July 18, 2017, for the fifth time in President Trump's brief six months in office, his Administration added still more Iranians to the US list of Specially Designated Nationals (SDNs).

The Russian Federation's Minister of Agriculture, Alexandr Tkachov announced on 26 May 2015 that duty on exports of Russian grain will be imposed during the 2015-16 agricultural year, beginning 1 July.

2020 begins just a month into the Saudi Government's new Government Tenders & Procurement Law (GTPL), which came into effect on 1 December 2019,...

The government authorities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) are collectively working on improving the investment environment, as part of the National Transformation Plan and Vision 2030.

Hotels in Singapore will be affected as their services will clearly fall within the definition of event contracts and tourism related contracts.

Together with the stimulus package announced by the Singapore government on 26 March 2020 (whereby US$750 million has been pledged to support and protect the aviation sector),

Draft regulations in terms of the Financial Sector Regulation Act, 9 of 2017 published for comment in South Africa.

Publication of the amendments to the Regulations of the Long-term and Short-term Insurance Act and the replacement Policyholder Protection Rules ...

On 2 March 2018, Caroline Da Silva, in the capacity as deputy registrar of Long-term and Short-term Insurance, published for public comment proposed amendments ...

In this month's Finance Briefing we review the effects of the new Mining (Local Content) Regulations, 2018 (the Regulations) on operations of commercial banks in Tanzania.

As mentioned in the immediately preceding article, one of the seven States that acceded to the 1999 Montreal Convention in 2017 was Thailand...

The UAE has established a committee to investigate the potential merger of the Insurance Authority into the Securities and Commodities Authority, to form a single financial services regulator.

In the wake of global economic recession and speculation around a possible "double-dip" recession, the economic environment continues to present challenges to employers in the UAE.