On 9 October 2025, the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) released the fifth edition of its Future of Finance series, titled ‘The Future of Alternative Investments’, analyzing how alternative assets are reshaping global investment strategies and positioning emerging markets as engines of growth.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Wepa Hygieneprodukte GmbH, a leading European, family-owned producer and supplier of tissue products, in connection with a successful €500 million offering of 4.500 percent senior notes due 2032.

China’s evolving legislative opening-up continues to offer new opportunities to foreign fund investors across investments in China’s equity, securities, and capital markets.

Australia is entering a transformative phase in its response against financial crime, with the most significant changes to its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) laws in nearly two decades.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has moved from the margins to the mainstream of asset management. Firms are deploying AI to accelerate research, modernize operations, sharpen risk surveillance, and enhance client service.

Proxy advisory firms Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis have published their 2026 proxy voting guidelines.

In the first instalment of our global horizon scanner series, our team consider the growing trend of increased regulatory enforcement relating to anti-money laundering.

The international enforcement and investigations landscape continues to evolve.

ESG may have been overtaken on the board agenda in recent times by other threats perhaps perceived to be more pressing and against a wider economic and political backdrop in which many have been placing greater emphasis on growth and opportunity.

The Regulator has published a report of its intervention in the Northern Foods Pension Scheme to safeguard the benefits of more than 13,000 members after identifying serious concerns about the employer's ability to support the scheme.

The Regulator published a press release on December 9, 2025, highlighting its new guidance publication that consolidates all administration expectations for trustees, scheme managers and administrators and is designed to help them deliver high-quality services that safeguard member benefits and build trust in the pensions system.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised Redsky Homes on planning permission for a 51 unit residential scheme located in Slough, England.

The Regulator launched an initiative to explore the approach of DC and DB pension schemes to investing in growth assets on December 8, 2025.

The PPF has published the 20th edition of The Purple Book, which provides data and analysis of the UK DB pension landscape as at March 31, 2025.

On November 21, 2025, the High Court gave directions in 3i plc v Decesare [2025] regarding the correct interpretation of a fetter on the amendment power of an occupational pension scheme which prevented amendments that would "diminish any pension already being paid under the Plan or the accrued rights or interests of any Member or other person in respect of benefits already provided under the Plan".

A Pension Schemes Bill 2025 amendment paper was published on December 1, 2025, setting out extensive Government amendments and new clauses ahead of the Bill's report stage and third reading that took place on December 3, 2025. The Bill then moved to the House of Lords for consideration. The second reading in the House of Lords is scheduled for December 18, 2025.