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Byline: Thomas Helm The document airs some of the most important and controversial questions around efforts to incorporate ESG risks into the Basel III framework Market participants have welcomed the [...]

Byline: John Crabb Paper suggests using SOFR to compile adjustable-rate mortgage product for consumers as the industry looks to distance itself from expiring IBORs The Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC) [...]

Byline: John Crabb The data breach aims a spotlight on national authorities and renews calls for globalised anti-money laundering and fraud standards The latest in a string of recent data [...]

Byline: AmA©lie LabbA© The government's Brexit white paper has hinted that the UK could adopt a form of third country status for financial services. But it falls short of providing [...]

Byline: AmA©lie LabbA© The government has clarified a few points surrounding the future of UK financial services but uncertainty remains The governmenta's Brexit white paper has hinted that the UK [...]

Byline: Danielle Myles The Libor and forex scandals have laid the groundwork for quicker and stronger enforcement of the hoard of violations to be exposed by the Panama Papers Regulatory [...]

In March 2002, the European Council in Barcelona reaffirmed its willingness to converge financial services by 2003 and implement an effective globalization of the capital markets by 2005. Subsequent calls [...]

In October 2001, the Basle Committee on Banking Supervision released a working paper on asset securitization. The paper supplements the consultative document on asset securitization that the Committee published as [...]

Law Decree No 83 of June 22 2012, converted into law with amendments by law No 134 of August 7 2012, is part of a number of new laws recently [...]

Byline: Gemma Varriale Leading lawyers have called for market participants to now engage with regulators in helping to shape the CMU's future rules. The EC this week published a green [...]

It is rarely easy to regulate the open and inherently insecure environment of the internet. India's first attempt wisely takes as its starting point the United Nations Commission on International [...]

Lawyers in Hong Kong have urged private equity houses in the region to respond to Esmas AIFM directive consultation paper on third country issues Lawyers in Hong Kong have urged [...]

On August 1 2011 the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) published a concept paper regarding regulation of Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs). The paper is accompanied by draft proposed [...]

The FSA's discussion paper on trading book reform provides valuable clues on what the Basel Committee could deal with in its next set of guidelines The UK Financial Services Authority's [...]

Esma has launched a Prospectus Directive consultation. The paper is seeking comments on the technical advice it proposes to give the EC on delegated acts. Read the first reaction here [...]

The power of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) to issue and apply its listing rules comes from the super-regulator, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). The SFC has overall [...]

Finmas move to improve investor protection on structured products is an unusual one that proves regulatory convergence is increasing across Europe Swiss financial regulator Finmaes consultation paper on improving investor [...]

Old-fashioned interviewing techniques and site visits are the only way of getting comfortable with potential portfolio companies Paper due diligence is pointless on Asian private equity targets. Old-fashioned interviewing techniques [...]

Following the release of the EC's shadow banking green paper, lawyers are concerned about how regulators are going to be internationally consistent in their oversight of the industry. 'These are [...]

Byline: Morrison & Foerster, New York Given recent concern about mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities and SIVs, it is surprising that investors had any energy left to attack another market segment. [...]

The UK Treasury has published its plans to implement the ICB's banking reforms. But lawyers have raised doubts on several key points The UK Treasury this month set out its [...]

H Jayesh Freddy Daruwala Indian lawmakers appear to have become very PR savvy with the release of the Revised Discussion Paper (RDP), when compared to the earlier draft of the [...]

Wierzbowski & Szubielska Warsaw The use of commercial paper as an alternative way to raise capital is becoming increasingly popular in Poland. The first Polish commercial paper was issued in [...]

The European Securities and Markets Authoritys (Esma) Prospectus Directive consultation raises several major concerns in its treatment of final terms and summaries, according to ICMA The European Securities and Markets [...]

Koo & Partners Hong Kong With a view to bringing the regulatory regime of Hong Kong, which is fundamentally disclosure-based, more in line with its international counterparts and to assure [...]

By Waselius & Wist In December 2002, Stora Enso Oyj, a Finnish-Swedish paper, packaging and forest products company (www.storaenso.com), carried out the first whole-business securitization transaction in Finland on its [...]

The market for corporate control has developed rapidly in Spain over the past 10 years. The transfer of control over companies through mergers or takeovers is an increasingly important phenomenon [...]

Takashi Toichi and Takeshi Fukatsu of Anderson Mori & Tomotsune examine recent revisions to the corporate governance regime in Japan Takashi Toichi and Takeshi Fukatsu of Anderson Mori & Tomotsune [...]

The 'Australia in the Asian Century' white paper (White Paper) released October 28 signals the countrys intention to develop deeper relationships with Asia. But it must first clarify its foreign [...]

Byline: Alice Tchernookova The UK watchdog has released a discussion paper on SDR for asset managers and on a new labelling system for sustainable investment products, which sources say decomplexify [...]

Special purpose acquisition companies (Spacs) came into being in Korea by the Amendment to the Enforcement Decree of the Financial Investment Services and Capital Markets Act (FISCMA) in December 2009. [...]

Debt Uria Menendez advised a group of creditors on the restructuring of debt belonging to the Sanahuja Group shareholders in Spanish real estate company Metrovacesa. In return, the creditors will [...]

Byline: Ashley Lee The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong today released its highly-anticipated concept paper on weighted voting rights 0 0 1 844 4812 Euromoney Trading Ltd. 40 11 5645 [...]

Byline: John Crabb Chairman Giancarlo released a white paper referred to as Swaps 2.0 today at the Isda AGM in Miami, outlining five steps that will simplify the regulatory process [...]

Byline: Ashley Lee Hong Kong has released its first consultation paper on bank resolution. But there is concern around some of the key provisions Hong Kong has released its first [...]

Canada's courts have recently introduced new uncertainties to the country's mergers and acquisitions regime with decisions regarding the acquisition (by way of a plan of arrangement) of Pacifica Papers by [...]

A new paper makes a number of proposals designed to address the extraterritorial effect of the US framework in the swaps industry Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman Christopher Giancarlo [...]

Byline: Gemma Varriale The completion of a flagship solar project in Abu Dhabi and a recent white paper on renewable energy in Saudi Arabia suggest there is more to come [...]

Byline: Ashley Lee A discussion paper proposing that banksÇÖ exposure to a single corporate, to connected parties, cannot exceed 25% could prompt companies to tap the local debt capital markets [...]

Byline: Ashley Lee The Asia Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association's white paper on Asiaâs capital markets has highlighted the need for transparent and harmonised regulation across the region. 0 [...]

Byline: Ashley Lee The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong's highly-anticipated concept paper on weighted voting rights furthers the market's debate on non-traditional shareholding structures. Hong Kong's listing rules have adhered [...]

Byline: Olly Jackson This segment of the financial services sector conducts transactions on paper. Companies have to make significant progress to comply The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is expected [...]

Byline: Karry Lai Re-listing in Hong Kong SAR or Shanghai wonâ't be end of the world for companies listed in the US, meaning the new rules are significantly less threatening [...]

Byline: Karry Lai The argument for efficiencies made through advance rulings by the Takeovers Panel and the ousting of the courts by the panel will not outweigh current system's benefits [...]

Byline: Danielle Myles The green paper clearly has broad industry support, but some constructive criticisms are beginning to surface. Four months after the European Commission released its green paper, itas [...]

The EC's consultation paper has lawyers concerned about how to ensure international consistency in the treatment of shadow banking The EC yesterday published a consultation paper that is the first [...]

Senior bondholders may have to shoulder the burden of losses of European banks in place of taxpayers, according to a consultation paper released by the EC Senior bondholders could be [...]

The lighter side of the past month in the world of financial law A transatlantic mystery We try not to get overly political here at IFLR, but sometimes â especially [...]

Hong Kong could finally have a rescue regime next year. But employee issues must be dealt with first Rachel EvansAsia editor Hong Kong's consultation paper on a rescue regime for [...]

Allen & Overy has advised lead manager and arranger Morgan Stanley on the securitization of forest land by Finnish forest products company Stora Enso. The securitization is the first of [...]