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22 Apr 2008
Despite numerous class actions in America, investors will have trouble prosecuting banks for fraudulent disclosure in prospectuses
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22 Apr 2008
Mifid has made it harder to discover market abuse in Europe, due to segmentation of trading information
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17 Apr 2008
Basel II is inadequate. It miscalculated the amount of capital that institutions need to cover the risk of complex products, the Basel Committee admitted yesterday
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17 Apr 2008
In a move that could start government-sponsored securitisation, the Bank of England is planning to allow banks to swap mortgages for treasury bonds
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14 Apr 2008
In a potentially pointless move, the Institute of International Finance has proposed a template for structured finance offering documents
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08 Apr 2008
Last week's comments by Charlie McCreevy on a European Commission response to financial turmoil have been met with indifference
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03 Apr 2008
Indian companies are altering the terms of their derivative contracts with banks, to soften the blow from badly performing cross-currency derivative bets and ease their relationships with the lenders
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02 Apr 2008
In a move that may be the start of a more synchronised approach to regulation, Britain and America are creating a transatlantic working group to reform the banking system
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02 Apr 2008
The US Treasury's blueprint for regulatory reform was released earlier in the week, and the legal community, while agreeing with many of the proposals, calls for more to be done
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01 Apr 2008
SEC rule proposals not without controversy