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Despite the volume of regulation last year, 2010 will be all about deal trends. Expect covered bonds, flipper clauses and floating-rate collars. Oh, and the dreaded return of cov-lite. By Elizabeth Fournier, Rachel Evans, Nicholas Pettifer and Tom Young
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The European Commission's Prips proposal is a complete overhaul of retail investment
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How bank capital rules in the US will affect structured finance
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The scope of regulation to impose living wills in the UK and the US reaches much further than originally planned. Lawyers are worried it could change the way that banks are structured, and tie up essential capital reserves
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The SFC was great, but investigations need a lot of work. And there's convergence, but not in China. Paul Browne and Paul Li of Simmons & Simmons examine the results of the Bankers' Counsel Poll
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Martin Goldberg compares London to New York, BarCap to Lehman
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PLUS: First US sukuk boosts industry; Effects on Asian sovereign debt; Timeline - how it all happened
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IFLR puts the concerns of Asia's minibond victims to the SFC in Hong Kong
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The industry must respond quickly and effectively to regulatory initiatives
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Did Hong Kong allow the controversial listing of Rusal, with lower listing requirements, for purely commercial reasons?
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A surprising conclusion on flawed-asset conditional
payments has practitioners scrambling for a solution.
Here's one
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Greater restrictions on regulatory capital mean banks are turning to equity derivatives to make investments specific for anchor investors
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French conciliation proceedings are morphing successfully into aids to distressed M&A. Here's why
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Private equity houses are beginning to view the initial public offering as a viable exit strategy from their portfolio investments once again
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Did the Billing case create hyper field pre-emption for US securities laws? An analysis Of the Second Circuit's Short Sale decision
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Derivatives legislation has been passed by the US House
of Representatives. But there's still a lot of argument and jurisdictional wrangling to go
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Many financial institutions will feel that the UK Corporate Governance Code will not change anything. But it's worth the Board debating the issues
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Six tips for avoiding complaints about settlement procedure, and having to do the process all over again
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The legal potential of a German fund