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20 May 2013
Growing companies have been hit particularly hard by the squeeze on bank finance. But, despite the retreat of traditional sources of credit, financing is available to those that are willing to innovate
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25 April 2013
Market opinion is sharply divided on whether Cyprus’s favourable holding company regime is ringfenced from the effects of its banking crisis. It’s a critical question for Russia’s multi-billion dollar private M&A sector
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23 April 2013
Institutional investors are set to lend $25 billion to European projects in 2013. But the shadow banking rules are threatening the future of these funds
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11 April 2013
The market is sharply divided over how extensive risk disclosure should be in emerging market offering documents.The best practice debate has gathered steam recently, as investors read prospectuses more closely than ever before
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11 April 2013
Reform of the UK’s financial sector has reached an inflection point, the Bank of England’s executive director for financial stability has said. These are the questions that should form the new regulatory battleground
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11 April 2013
Although the European Commission’s Financial Transaction Tax is scheduled to be implemented across 11 EU member states, its effects are far more damaging that many realise. These are the facts about the true impact of the FTT
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02 April 2013
Regulatory compulsion is shaping up as a key battleground in benchmark rate reform, as more banks quit rate-setting panels
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25 March 2013
Europe is set to adopt the toughest bonus regime in the world. But what exactly do the new rules mean
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20 March 2013
The LSE's new High Growth Segment is set to launch within the next fortnight. The LSE's primary markets head, Alastair Walmsley, told IFLR how else the exchange plans to boost UK equity
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05 March 2013
The European Union’s patchwork of unfinished capital markets rules continues to complicate issuers’ efforts to structure new debt offerings
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26 February 2013
The EU’s proposed financial transaction tax would be so disruptive to securities markets that it could render some FTT zone trading desks uneconomic
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04 February 2013
IFLR today revealed its Europe Awards 2013 shortlist. Here is who will be attending this year's awards ceremony
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30 January 2013
Investment heads and financial professionals described the few brightspots for Europe’s struggling structured products market, during an American Securitization Forum panel on Tuesday
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28 January 2013
One of the most striking trends in the UK system is exploring different ways to fund litigation, according to Jonathan Nash QC, a barrister with 3VB Gray’s Inn
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08 January 2013
Weil Gotshal & Manges' James Leavy outlines the legacy problems arising from the failure of the 1992 Maastricht Treaty
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08 January 2013
Wall Street's most influential lawyer, was at the centre of US regulators' attempt to save Lehman Brothers. Here he compares the US and EU regulatory reactions post-crisis
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08 January 2013
Banks are increasingly focused on meeting Basel III's tough new capital requirements. But as Richard Reid of the International Centre for Financial Regulation's explains, the global bank reform story started long before the 2008 crisis
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13 December 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 November 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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29 November 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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23 November 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