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Raids by Asia-Pacific Enforcers Are on the Rise: A Guide to Being Prepared for When the Enforcer Comes Knocking

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The Development: After an interruption during the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities across the Asia-Pacific region have fully revived dawn raids....more

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Mainland China issued new rules on algorithm trading

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Mainland China stock exchanges recently issued new rules on algorithm trading, as part of the continuing regulatory efforts to ensure the stability of the financial market. Investors may need to ask a number of key...more

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SEC Division of Corporation Finance Releases Sample Comment Letter for China-Based Companies

On July 17, 2023, the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance (“Division”) released another Sample Letter (“Letter”) that outlines the disclosures that the Staff is focused on in relation to...more

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Middle East and Africa corridor: The perfect partnership for funding Africa's growth

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For African economies living on the edge, can the Middle East provide the much-needed boost to the under-serviced Muslim population in Africa? ...more

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HKEX Initiatives Present Opportunities Even in a Down Market

Like other global financial centers, Hong Kong has seen falling IPO volumes and volatile markets in 2022 in the face of challenging macroeconomic conditions and rising geopolitical tensions, including between China and the...more

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INTERPOL Red Notices and cryptocurrency related charges: why are these cases emerging in South Korea, China, the United States,...

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Again this week, there is news that a cryptocurrency entreprenuer is wanted to face criminal charges. In the case of Do Kwon, the co-creator of failed cryptocurrency TerraUSD, South Korean authorities alleged that 280,000...more

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Upcoming Regulatory Initiatives Impacting Private Fund Managers - September 2022

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This latest edition of the regulatory initiatives paper sets out at a high level the core regulatory issues that are likely to impact private fund managers in the coming months, including an overview of the key actions needed...more

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Despite Headwinds, Disney Reappoints Chapek as CEO Through 2025

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Despite a very rough patch of late, Disney CEO Bob Chapek has won reappointment as top Big Mouse exec. Chapek “could remain at the helm of Disney until at least 2025” and has a lot to tackle, including a flagging stock price,...more

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Will An Economic Downturn Lead to An Increase in Tax-Related Whistleblowing?

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Economic Downturn? The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee announced last week that it would raise the Fed’s baseline interest rate by 0.75 percentage points, the largest such increase since 1994. ...more

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Implementation of ETF Connect in Hong Kong

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On 27 May 2022, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission ("SFC") and the China Securities Regulatory Commission ("CSRC") published a joint announcement (the "Joint Announcement") on the inclusion of eligible...more

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Elon Musk Strikes Deal to Take Twitter Private for $44B

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Elon Musk and Twitter brass struck a deal on Monday in which Musk will spend $44 billion to “take over the influential social network frequented by world leaders, celebrities and cultural trendsetters” and take it private....more

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Tesla Impresses with Massive Q1 Profits

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Tesla delivered $3.3 billion in profits during the first three months of 2022, a massive increase from the sub-$500M figure during the same period a year before. Still, the company also told investors on Wednesday that “it...more

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Peloton Founder Foley Steps Aside as CEO, Company to Restructure

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Not that far removed from a gangbusters pandemic performance by his company driven by exercise-crazed consumer panic-buying its bikes and treadmills, Peloton founder John Foley has stepped down as company CEO and announced...more

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Strong Q4 Boosts Annual U.S. GDP to Highest Mark Since 1984

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Stronger-than-expected GDP figures for the 4th Quarter and 2021 on the whole was welcome good economic news for the U.S. on Thursday after weeks of volatility and renewed supply-chain issues. Q4 growth clocked in at 1.7%,...more

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Unilever Makes Bid for GSK Consumer Health

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Unilever kicked off the hostile takeover season on Monday by confirming that it remained interested buying out the joint venture of GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer—GSK Consumer Health—despite GSK’s rejection of three previous...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.6.2021 - Cryptos Crash as Mixed Jobs Report Pushes Investors to Safety

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Markets fell again on Friday after the November jobs report failed to hit predicted marks. Still, the news wasn’t all bad, as the numbers also showed that the country’s unemployment rate dropped and “the overall participation...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.16.2021 | Top Story: $1T Infrastructure Investment Signed Into Law

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The tortuously negotiated and much-anticipated infrastructure bill that will commit $1 trillion to rebuilding the “nation’s roads, ports and power lines” officially became law on Monday. Here’s another look at what the final...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.3.2021 | Top Story Facebook Shuts Down Decade Old Facial Recognition System

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Prompted by concerns over privacy, “government investigation, a class-action lawsuit and regulatory woes,” Facebook is planning to “shut down its decade-old facial recognition system this month, deleting the face scan data of...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.19.2021 | Top Story: SEC Issues Long-Awaited Report on Meme Stock Craze

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The SEC was out Monday with a long-awaited report on the meme-stock frenzy that helped propel GameStop and a handful of other “little-regarded” companies to meteoric rises in the depths of our first Covid winter. The report,...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.15.2021 | Top Story LinkedIn Shuts Down Site Access in China

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Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is shuttering its grand experiment in the Chinese marketplace, citing “a significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirement.” The pull out “completes the fracture...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.12.2021 | Top Story: Southwest Cancellations Continue, Stranding Angry Passengers

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Southwest Airlines canceled hundreds more flights to start the week, though its operations were closer to normal after a weekend that saw the carrier nix almost 2000 flights. The company blamed a mix of weather problems, “air...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.8.2021 | Top Story: Tesla Makes Good on Threat to Move HQ from Cali to Texas

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Jobs Report Friday! Here’s what analysts are looking for in the numbers, with the Delta variant’s impact on the recovery still looming large - MarketWatch and NYTimes and WSJ and Bloomberg Elon Musk & Co. are decamping from...more

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China’s Latest ‘No’ to Crypto

Various Chinese regulators announced a blanket ban on all cryptocurrency transactions and mining, the latest in a concerted effort to address illicit activities conducted using digital assets. The announcement on September...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.27.2021 | Top Story: U.S. and Huawei Resolve Long-Simmering Dispute Over Meng Wanzhou

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Friday’s sudden end to the years-long Meng Wanzhou drama (she, the Huawei scion and exec who had been under house arrest in Canada and the subject of possible extradition to the U.S. who was released and returned to China)...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.23.2021 | Top Story: Fed Pitches Slow Taper and Possible 2022 Rate Hikes

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The Federal Reserve wrapped its September Open Market Committee meetings on Wednesday with the anticipated news that it would soon start to slowly taper its asset purchasing and is prepared to raise interest rates as early as...more

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