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Deal analysis

• ADB’s first shariah-compliant project financing explained

  31 May 2012

  The Asian Development Bank has participated in its first shariah-compliant project financing for two wind farms in Pakistan. But the use of Islamic financial instruments was not ADB’s first option.

• ResCap’s complex Dip financing

  21 May 2012

  One of the most intriguing aspects of Residential Capital’s Chapter 11 reorganisation could be its Dip financing package

• World’s biggest IPP sets Saudi trust law precedent

  09 May 2012

  Innovative solutions devised on the debt financing of the Qurayyah IPP have set the benchmark for how lenders will take security under a new Saudi trusts law

• Peru issues first project bond for LatAm port

  08 May 2012

  The first project bond issued to finance a port in Latin America saw investors take full construction risk with no government guarantee or financial guaranty insurance

News analysis

• OPEN ACCESS: Will Islamic finance dispute panels really work?

  22 May 2012

  Despite the idea of platforms to resolve Islamic finance disputes gaining popularity, introducing the schemes could involve hidden risks

• New trading book rules target value-at-risk

  15 May 2012

  The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s latest consultation on trading book capital rules signals a move away from the discredited value-at-risk model.

• Why Basel III is bad for China

  09 May 2012

  Implementing of Basel III in China would result in a vicious downward cycle. Market participants believe it should be postponed

• BlackRock MD on securities lending laws

  02 May 2012

  Addressing the European Commission’s shadow banking conference, Joanna Cound, managing director, government relations at BlackRock, emphatically disagreed with Paul Tucker’s earlier comment that securities lending is a form of banking