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21 December 2011
The first shariah-compliant greenfield project bond combined a sukuk with international-standard project bond intercreditor techniques to allow the landmark accession of the sukuk to the wider financing market
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22 November 2011
The first Australian covered bonds were issued last week but there are tax implications, warn advisers
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28 September 2011
Air Liquide, a technology company, has become the first French issuer of renminbi denominated bonds
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31 August 2011
The National Bank of Abu Dhabi has become the first Middle Eastern financial institution to successfully issue samurai bonds
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16 August 2011
Analysis of the world’s first SME backed covered bond and Turkey’s first covered bond
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15 July 2011
The first inflation-linked bond by the Kingdom of Thailand should spark copycat deals. But slow buy-in from regulators was just one of the challenges of bringing the deal to market
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23 December 2011
The country is on the rise, but questions remain about M&A structuring and capital markets regulation
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23 December 2011
An IBA panel argument over plans to ban CoCos from G-Sifi buffers highlights regulator inconsistencies
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21 December 2011
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24 November 2011
Southeast Asia bankers and bankers’ counsel are lobbying the Indonesian regulator to amend the country’s Material Transaction rule
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23 November 2011
Indonesian rupiah (IDR) bonds are unlikely to succeed without more direction and structure from the country’s regulators
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23 November 2011
Indonesia’s high yield market participants are struggling to make sense of the country’s new Receiving of Export Proceeds regulation, according to lawyers in the country
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17 November 2011
Australia’s first covered bond has launched. But a European-style aggregate model might be necessary to encourage covered bonds issuance by smaller ADIs
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09 November 2011
While demand for retail high yield issues is likely to be strong, there are still a lot of legal and reputational risks, said a Citi in-house counsel at the Afme high yield conference
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09 November 2011
Investors should cut a deal with the shareholders of family or oligarch-owned companies, or face the prospect of getting nothing
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09 November 2011
Issuers now consistently offer fuller disclosure of intercreditor agreements, said speakers at an Afme conference in London this week
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09 November 2011
Protections included in revolving credit facility (RCF) deals and how they will compare to bond transactions is still open to uncertainty
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25 October 2011
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25 October 2011
Leveraged loan covenants are showing banks’ hesitancy to finance all but the strongest of credits. More robust market flex terms and bigger equity checks have characterised deals coming to market during summer
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20 October 2011
Contingent convertible bonds will need to be more widely-tested before the instrument is recognised in Hong Kong, the HKMA has told IFLR
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13 October 2011
IFLR has worked together with Latham & Watkins to release the book ‘Accessing the US capital markets from outside the United States: an overview of key legal issues’. View it here
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11 October 2011
Hung high-yield bridge loans are on the rise. Hastily agreed provisions are being scrutinised, with three key areas causing headaches
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11 October 2011
Bankers in Asia expect CoCos structures to develop idiosyncratically across the region
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04 October 2011
Giving advice is an integral part of the underwriting service, says Kenneth Gibbs of Jefferies & Company
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29 September 2011
Municipal bond experts opposed the proposal to remove longstanding municipal bond tax exemptions during a Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (Sifma) conference on September 27
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23 September 2011
Bank of China (Hong Kong) has urged overseas issuers to get better acquainted with the offshore renminbi products on offer
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12 September 2011
The Vickers report needs to clarify its position on UK banks’ ability to sell covered bonds, according to regulatory lawyers
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06 September 2011
The AFM will monitor more closely how banks and insurers report their investments in government debt
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06 September 2011
Belgium’s long-overdue covered bond legislation is due by the end of November, according to a lawyer who helped with its drafting
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25 August 2011
Draft guidelines issued this week by China’s Ministry of Commerce mark a departure from mainland regulatory coordination on renminbi internationalisation
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16 August 2011
Simon Gleeson and Donald Lamson to discuss the latest hot topics in financial regulation in free upcoming web seminar
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02 August 2011
Tier two capital is now the instrument of choice post-CRD 4 given its clarity and executability, say Credit Agricole CIB
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02 August 2011
FSC spokesperson J Ernst Lee says revisions to FSCMA could be "a rude awakening for ill-prepared local financial service providers"
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25 July 2011
The market is not ready for high-yield bonds to be sold to retail investors in Europe
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25 July 2011
Immaturity in Asia’s high yield market is prompting some international banks to walk away from deals
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15 July 2011
Stuttgart Börse’s fledgling BondM platform has worried lawyers due to its ability to issue non-investment grade debt direct to retail investors
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11 July 2011
Steven Maijoor, Esma’s new chairman, explains his position on investor responsibility, the regulator’s resources and its relationship with the EC
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11 July 2011
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11 July 2011
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11 July 2011
Most lawyers believe that Basel Committee are right to allow CoCos to be endorsed in capital rules for systemic banks
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11 July 2011
The treatment of final terms and summaries in Esma’s Prospectus Directive consultation paper have raised several concerns, and may lead to a rethink of MTN programmes
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11 July 2011
The EU Prospectus Directive aims to remove barriers to a Europe-wide capital market, but many of Esma’s proposals will do just the opposite
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11 July 2011
Esma chairman Steven Maijoor outlines a tougher stance on hedge funds, ETFs and non-European ratings agencies at the ICMA annual general meeting
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11 July 2011
Conversion triggers are open to manipulation, but there are ways of mitigating this risk
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11 July 2011
The US has embraced cov-lites once more. And some terms are riskier than pre-crisis
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08 July 2011
Aurelius' ‘amicable resolution’ with the government in a dispute over the state’s buyback scheme has left the market with no more clarity than before the outcome
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08 July 2011
Around 200 in-house counsel and private practice lawyers gathered in Mumbai’s ITC Grand Central Hotel last night to see Amarchand Mangaldas scoop Indian firm of the year.
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08 July 2011
Citibank has set up a a custody platform in Panama to facilitate foreign investment in locally issued securities