Last week’s ransomware attack, known as WannaCry, infected 230,000 computers around the world. This included those of the British National Health Service and Russia’s interior ministry. An event of this scale could usher in a new frontier of regulation as governments turn their attention to Bitcoin and other “cryptocurrencies”. Savvy law firms will reap the rewards.

"Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role” – that famous quote has never been truer since the Brexit referendum consigned Britain’s EU membership to history. But can the UK turn its history as a trading nation and its soft cultural power into a new Post-Brexit global economic future – or will it retreat into an inward-looking Eurocentric comfort zone?

With Presidential elections fast approaching in Ecuador, the rest of Latin America looks to the small nation to give a reading of where politics sits on the Continent. A so-called ‘pink tide’ swept the continent in the previous decade, Ecuador will determine whether it has now receded.