In an effort to ensure Singapore’s corporate regulatory regime continues to stay robust and to strengthen Singapore’s status as a leading global financial hub, the Companies (Amendment) Act 2017 (“CAA 2017”) was passed by Parliament on 10 March 2017 ...

Including electronic visas, IPRs taxes, import/export rules, new tax regulations for farmland use, management of investment projects and commercial mediation ...

The Financial Services Authority has updated public companies’ obligation to report on their shareholding by way of OJK Regulation No. 11/POJK.04/2017 regarding Report on Public Company Ownership ...

The May 2017 India newsletter from Clasis Law includes an article on “Corporate Compliances: Necessity and Implication”, as well as Banking, Projects, Energy & Natural Resources and IP updates ...

Centre for Amicable Settlement of Disputes can no longer mediate disputes when a bank is a party to such dispute ....

Including briefings on the national food processing policy, projects and energy, and intellectual property.

While the political winds of the past 12 months seem to reflect an anti-globalisation sentiment in many major economies around the globe ...

The UAE has embarked on an ambitious undertaking by introducing new business friendly mutual funds regulations to stimulate the UAE funds industry and provide the foundation for a more developed regional funds regime in the Gulf Cooperation Council ...

The start of 2017 saw a handful of new regulations that affect business in Vietnam. Indochine Counsel have briefed them and outlined the most important changes from each new regulation, ranging from the Civil Code to minimum wage and from accountancy to gambling ...

The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) recently released regulations requiring banks and foreign bank branches in Vietnam to maintain a minimum capital adequacy ratio (CAR) of 8 percent from 2020...

This months India newsletter from Clasis Law includes an article on the “Regulatory challenges for Vodafone Idea merger”, plus updates in Projects, Energy, IP and Banking & Finance ...

The election of Mr. Donald J. Trump as President of the United States has resulted in much consideration by corporates of existing strategies with respect to Iran...

The new Pledge Law of the UAE was enacted on 12 December 2016 ...

Vietnam has passed new regulations governing forex agents, tax, food safety and other aspects which affect conducting business in the country.

Canada: The government has introduced a bill which proposes to create a comprehensive federal consumer code and strengthen federal jurisdiction over provincial jurisdiction with respect to products and services of banks.