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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 [...]

Byline: James Nurton - MIP Information on the UK's divorce from the EU, and what that means for IP rights, is becoming clearer, but many questions remain. Managing IP reports [...]

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 [...]

The Australian government has launched a review into the scope of its safe harbour scheme for internet service providers On October 14 Australia's Attorney-General Robert McClelland set out the details [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Kolster Oy Ab, Helsinki Our firm has virtually abandoned filing applications on paper. We feel that online filing is safer than paper filing, provided that some sensible precautions are [...]

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 [...]