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20 Dec 2012
Baidu’s SEC-registered offering marked a number of firsts. Here’s how it could spark copycat deals
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20 Dec 2012
A US Federal Reserve proposal could mean risk-managment, liquidity and capital requirements for foreign bank's US operations. But the industry still has avenues to push back
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19 Dec 2012
The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Annual Report on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program: Fiscal Year 2012 reveals a programme that is still grappling with many difficulties, lawyers have said
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16 Dec 2012
The Hong Kong Treasury Markets Association’s Hibor review has clear implications for future contracts as well as future Hibor tenors. Here's why
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13 Dec 2012
Europe has agreed to hand the ECB powers to directly supervise the region’s biggest banks. Here EU lawyers outline the key questions remaining
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30 Nov 2012
Credit rating agencies attracted a fair chunk of the blame for the global financial crisis. But that's nothing new, says Mark Adelson, former chief credit officer at Standard & Poor's
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30 Nov 2012
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ director of finance, industry and infrastructure, Dr. Somsak Pipoppinyo, outlines what’s next on the Association’s reform agenda
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30 Nov 2012
By 1983, Latin America faced mountainous debt and a policy response that was to condemn the region to it's lost decade. Here Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton's Lee Buchheit outlines how the eurozone could better cope with its crisis
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30 Nov 2012
The Indian securities regulator’s scheme aimed at foreign trades was a key step in liberalising the country’s capital markets, explains Ajay Vaidya, chief legal and compliance officer of Kotak Mahindra Capital
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30 Nov 2012
Ten years after the first global sovereign sukuk, international corporates are increasingly turning to shariah finance. Qudeer Latif, global head of Islamic finance at Clifford Chance, describes how the 2002 offering has impacted the development of Islamic finance
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30 Nov 2012
Ruchir Sharma, head of emerging markets at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, dispels some emerging market myths
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30 Nov 2012
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy's Phillip Fletcher outlines how the Naughty Nineties expanded access to capital markets
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29 Nov 2012
2012 may have been a positive year in terms of deal size, pricing and structure, it was also a year in which the market faced significant regulatory challenges
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27 Nov 2012
The CFTC’s plan to appeal a decision to void the position limits rule doesn't serve the interests of small investors, US lawyers have said
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23 Nov 2012
A leaked government document seen by International Tax Review reveals that the UK is planning to impose its own version of the US FATCA on its Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories
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22 Nov 2012
The introduction of Europe’s revised Prospectus Directive has prompted issuers in the region to consider alternative listing venues. But market participants are divided as to whether the market has been permanently damaged
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20 Nov 2012
Lawyers remain doubtful compromise terms, circulated last week, relating to the establishment of a European banking union are enough to effect change
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20 Nov 2012
Lawyers on both sides of the Atlantic have dismissed speculation that the US Basel III delay gives its banks a competitive advantage over their European counterparts
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19 Nov 2012
The economic hardship and resulting political upheaval in various eurozone countries threaten the growth prospects and stability of the global economy. A new security - growth sharing rights - could be the answer
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19 Nov 2012
Ahead of his retirement next year, the Hong Kong Exchange's listing head revealed the bourse's reform agenda at last week's IFLR Asia Capital Markets Forum
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19 Nov 2012
At IFLR's Asia Capital Markets Forum counsel discussed the impact of the proposed public relase of A1 filings on the Hong Kong IPO process
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19 Nov 2012
US lawyers at IFLR's Asia Capital Markets Forum expect a spate of foreign bank exits from the US. But those who leave may struggle to return
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15 Nov 2012
The China Banking Regulatory Commission's implementation of Basel III will foster greater complexity in the offshore renminbi market
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15 Nov 2012
Market participants expect a UK separation from the EU in the course of the next parliament. But lawyers in London have called for constraint
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07 Nov 2012
The impact of Europe's tough new short selling regime stretches far beyond EU borders, but there is still uncertainty among non-EU investors as to what they should be doing
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06 Nov 2012
Today's presidential elections could have a dramatic effect on US banking reform. But the additional regulatory impact of the Massachusetts Senate race should not be overlooked
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01 Nov 2012
The UK’s Association of Investment Companies (AIC) has called for the July 2013 implementation date for the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) to be pushed to 2014