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Following the recommendations suggested by the Ibero-American Institute for Law and Finance, Ecuador implemented the most ambitious corporate law reforms observed in Latin America in the past decades...

Over the coming months, years, and decades the digital transformation will raise questions as to whether we need new laws and regulations, should modify existing ones, or do nothing at all. Much of...

In 2021, Bitcoin has reached a crucial inflection point. At its peak in November 2021, Bitcoin traded at more than $69,000 in a trillion-dollar market. The year also saw El Salvador’s historic...

‘Prepare for a rising surge in insolvencies!’ Or so the predictions went in 2020 when much of the UK (and indeed global) economy shut down as the coronavirus pandemic took hold. But as 2021 draws to...

Branches of third-country banking groups (Third-Country Branches or TCBs) have a very significant footprint in the European Union (EU) with a sizeable amount of assets on their books relative to the...

At a roundtable in Brussels in May, NYU law Professor Harry First described the European Union’s proposed Digital Markets Act (DMA)—an ambitious regulatory proposal aimed at large platforms...

Recently a complaint was filed before the Competition Commission of India (CCI) alleging that Apple forces developers on Apple’s App Store to use its in-app payment system and charges an exorbitant...

Tariq Fancy, BlackRock’s former sustainable investing chief, caused a splash last month when he claimed that sustainable investing is ‘a dangerous placebo that harms the public interest’, ‘like...

On October 7, 2021, BlackRock announced that it will allow institutional clients to directly cast votes tied to their investments. Despite this effort to seemingly surrender influence, major asset...

Responsible business is the order of the day. Policymakers, investors, and executives themselves correctly believe that companies must stop focusing exclusively on shareholder value, instead turning...

The Indian Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) was enacted to fix an ailing system. Prior to the introduction of the law, it took years for a company to wind up, which often resulted in protracted...

Algorithmic trading—where two computer programmes deal directly with each other—is a commonplace of modern securities trading. However, in general such trading occurs under a framework contract which...

Some days ago, the World Bank discontinued the Doing Business (DB) report. For nearly twenty years, the DB’s annual report was one of the main drivers of business law reform worldwide, and a top data...

As the UK Parliament returns from its summer recess, new legislation will be considered in the insolvency space. One such piece of legislation which finished its third reading in the Commons and is...

The Italian 2020 Corporate Governance Code is one of the first European codes (together with the Spanish and the Dutch ones) that require—although on a comply or explain basis—listed companies to...

Let me begin with a disclaimer. I am no expert in Australian law. However, it seems to me that the Australian Federal Court (FCA) has made a series of missteps in the DABUS case (Thaler v...

The Reserve Bank of India (‘RBI’) first issued payments data localization-related sanctions in April 2021, restricting American Express and Diners Club from adding new customers for six months with...

The main goal of the recently published Technical Expert Stakeholder Group (TESG) Report is to start to set free EU Capital Markets from the cage of regulations suffocating them. As noted by the TESG...

A lot has already been said about the EU draft regulation for Artificial Intelligence (the ‘Regulation’), published by the European Commission on 21 April 2021. What has however remained little...

A recent incident involving Japanese conglomerate Toshiba bears important lessons for corporate governance in Japan, in particular shareholder activism and the possibility to acquire shares in...

Whether a guarantee issued by a guarantor in order to secure contractual obligations of a main debtor constitutes a regular suretyship guarantee, triggering liability for the guarantor (in accordance...