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New China Guidelines Increase Foreign Business Opportunities

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The world’s second-largest economy wants to make business transactions easier, from nurturing private enterprises to widening market access. The 30-page draft guidelines published by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) aim to reverse a slowdown of economic growth partially caused by the U.S.

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Managing Interest Rate Risk With a Bank Loan Term Sheet

South State Correspondent

We recently reviewed a loan term sheet from a national bank for a $13mm commercial real estate (CRE) loan. This particular national bank has the ability to offer the borrower an interest rate hedge or an on-balance sheet fixed-rate loan. The borrower was provided options on the type of hedge and when to execute.

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EU Sets Guidelines To Support Sharing Economy

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And recently, the European Union set out guidelines about its thoughts on how the sharing economy — AKA companies like Uber, Lyft and Airbnb — should be regulated. This new set of guidelines is only advisory and has no true regulatory powers. The sharing economy, regardless of country, has ruffled a lot of regulatory feathers.

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A Look Inside Switzerland’s Plans To Bank Crypto Businesses

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In July, reports in the Financial Times said Switzerland is working to open the nation’s traditional corporate banking market to cryptocurrency companies finding it difficult to get banked, thanks to fears over anti-money laundering (AML) violations and other compliance issues. “Time is pressing,” he said.

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How TIPS Is Helping ECB Expand Its Real-Time Payments Reach

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TIPS is a real-time payments network that the ECB created to build a more streamlined, interoperable Pan-European instant payments rail — one that allows for funds to be transferred quickly and seamlessly among all EU nations on a 24/7 year-round basis. Official guidelines and regulations can only go so far, however.

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Biz2Credit Bets On India’s Emerging Alt-Fin Market

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Biz2Credit is expanding its small business lending operations into a market without much experience with alternative finance. The executive added that India is also on track to see similar expansions in alternative SME finance as already experienced in other markets like Europe and the U.S.

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SFTR report: firms preparing for a "tsunami of data"

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When the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published its guidelines to national and regional regulators to encourage greater oversight into financial markets, even they couldn’t foresee the deluge of rules and compliance requirements those regulators would begin to craft. In Europe, the most.