Asia: Finance and Banking

A survey tracking market sentiment in relation to the global financial crisis.

O'Melveny & Myers LLP and Promontory Financial Group have co-authored the first detailed analysis of China's financial system undertaken in the wake of the global financial crisis.

It is often said that the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was caused by defaults on sub prime loans in the United States. Such defaults were merely symptoms of the underlying problem, rather than the cause, which of course was the over accumulation of debt by both businesses and consumers alike. Although investment markets have since seen significant appreciation since March 2009, it is now perhaps timely to review what, if any, improvements have really been made in the battle against the pernicio

The regimes differ in terms of specific validation rules and action types, even though field names may be similar in some cases.

Launching a new product today is trickier than it's ever been.

On 16 August 2024, The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Exchange") released a consultation paper to seek market feedback on proposals that would further expand the paperless listing regime.

As per the Master Directions on Non-resident Investment in Debt Instruments dated January 7, 2025, the Foreign Portfolio Investors (‘FPIs') investing in corporate debt securities were bound by...

The RBI has issued the Reserve Bank of India (Project Finance) Directions, 2025 (‘Project Finance Directions') dated June 19, 2025, to take effect from October 1, 2025 (‘Effective Date').

The Reserve Bank of India ("RBI") has released the draft Master Direction on ‘Digital Banking Channels Authorisation (Directions), 2025' for public consultation until August 11, 2025.

Amendments have been introduced to the Civil Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Special Part) No. 409-I dated 1 July 1999 (the "Civil Code")...

A frame and legal system among humans, standing particularly as one of the most sophisticated and long-lasting legal frameworks alongside Shari'at law and Muslim common law, is presently assumed to shape lives of more than 1.8 billion Muslims around the world.

The reform of prisons and rehabilitation has been treated from modern perspectives in Islamic law.