And here we are yet again appearing in your feed a few days late to allow our London-based marketing team to take some time off to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee.

And there's nothing like some

pomp and ceremony to get the collective heart of our London office pumping. But we're here

nonetheless and the product remains the same, a weekly podcast covering the top stories in regulatory

affairs with the assistance of Emlex's team of reporters around the world. My name is James Panicki.

I'm a senior editor with our Asia Pacific team and it's great to have your company.

Now in just over 10 minutes time, we'll bring you the incredible story of Swiss mining and

commodities company Glencore, which has agreed to pay a fine of one billion US

dollars for having paid over $100 million in bribes to officials in Africa and South America.

It's a whopping amount, but then again, if anyone can afford it, it's Glencore.

Our reporters Martin Coyle and Samuel Rubenfeld are standing by on either side

of the Atlantic to walk us through this incredible story of bribery, corruption and ongoing

regulatory risk. But speaking of billions of dollars, what are we to make of Broadcom's

$61 billion buyout of California-based cloud giant VMware.

Well, as it turns out, we're not the only ones pondering that question.

Regulators in both the EU and the US are set to grapple with some really tough M&A questions,

with one eye firmly on the potential for the deal affecting innovation.

Plus, Broadcom.

I mean, where have we heard that name before?

Yes, the California-based semiconductor company is no stranger to the merger spotlight.

Luckily for us, our EU-based reporter Natalie McNeilis is about to join us.

She's the co-author of a fine piece of

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