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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
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22 November 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 November 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 November 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 November 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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15 November 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 November 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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01 November 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
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30 October 2012
The extension of grandfathering periods under the US Fatca, will help overcome a deadlock that has plagued loan negotiations between foreign financial institutions
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22 October 2012
The proposed European bank reforms could increase shadow-banking activity, Erkki Liikanen, chairman of the European Union High Level Experts Group has warned
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19 October 2012
The shift away from complex risk-weighting towards absolute minimum capital levels suggests Basel III will look very different in just a few years time
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16 October 2012
Other countries are tipped to follow the UK Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) lead and soften bank capital requirements ahead of Basel III implementation
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15 October 2012
Lawyers discuss how Liikanen proposals will impact global trading and outline how European banks can continue to work within the new framework
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12 October 2012
European banking reforms, as proposed by the Liikanen Commission, are likely to supersede or replace the UK’s Vickers, lawyers have predicted
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11 October 2012
UK lawyers have branded the Liikanen Committee’s recommendations counterproductive. Here's why
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11 October 2012
A banking and fiscal union in the Eurozone would represent an almighty challenge to the UK, says Cities of London & Westminster MP, Mark Field
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04 October 2012
Highlights from Day 4 of the IBA Dublin conference 2012
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03 October 2012
Highlights from Day 2 of the IBA Dublin conference 2012
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03 October 2012
Highlights from Day 3 of the IBA Dublin conference 2012
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02 October 2012
2013 will be crunch time for the Eurozone, panellists at the IBA’s Legal Practice Division Showcase: ‘The euro area crisis – thinking the unthinkable’ have warned
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01 October 2012
The former World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz opened the IBA Dublin Conference 2012 yesterday. Here's why he believes austerity measures will not solve the global financial crisis
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28 September 2012
Questions as to whether criminal sanctions for manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) will have retrospective effect have dominated the market reaction to this morning’s release of the Wheatley Libor Review’s final report
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18 September 2012
Ahead of the Liikanen review, IFLR questioned market participants as to whether a combined Volcker/Vickers approach was right for Europe’s biggest banks
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18 September 2012
Santander Global Banking & Markets’ securitisation head, Afme’s securitisation division managing director, and Mayer Brown’s Kevin Hawken spoke with IFLR on the most damaging aspects of the rules
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16 September 2012
Ahead of the anticipated Liikanen Report, UK lawyers have warned that European policymakers should be introducing limited liability for EU banks, not more regulation
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13 September 2012
BNP Paribas’ global head of securitisation opens up on Europe's new Prime Collateralised Securities scheme and the regulatory fires hindering market growth
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06 September 2012
Participants in Europe’s alternative fund management industry have urged international regulators to adopt a more coordinated and considered approach to market supervision
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04 September 2012
Lawyers explain why European and UK equity capital markets must adopt a US-style regulatory regime to remain competitive
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29 August 2012
Diversification of Russia’s banking sector following its accession to the WTO will be constrained by raising global capital requirements. But the sector should be bolstered by loan standardisation expected this year
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23 August 2012
Coller Capital’s acquisition of £1.03 billion of private equity assets from Lloyds Banking Group is the largest unsyndicated secondaries deal ever completed. It reflects the secondary market’s growing popularity as an acceptable way to move capital around
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21 August 2012
The Treasury Select Committee’s preliminary report on fixing Libor called for reform in several areas of the UK banking sector. Here’s why market participants consider it a defining moment for financial regulation
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14 August 2012
University of New South Wales' Professor Justin O’Brien explains why the Wheatley Review pre-ordains continued failure
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07 August 2012
Here's how Iosco’s recent consultation and LCH Clearnet’s newly-launched clearing service could provide a CCP resolution template
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07 August 2012
Germany's proposed new law could slow down HFTs. But lawyers have warned that closer HFT supervision may not be enough
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06 August 2012
UK white collar prosecutors look set to receive a new enforcement tool following the MoJ's consultation
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01 August 2012
Unlisted Italian corporates are a step closer to tapping the debt capital markets after the government’s capital raising reforms were passed by the lower house of parliament last week
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31 July 2012
AMF's Edouard Vieillefond opens up to IFLR about the huge changes in financing economy, what he has learnt from the eurozone crisis, and his worries about the unintended consequences of regulation
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26 July 2012
Morgan Stanley has called for the Bank of England to replace the BBA in running the Libor settings. But changes need to happen for the move to be effective
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24 July 2012
The Libor probe has confirmed international banks have become too big for the UK, general counsel have warned. But splitting commercial banks from investment banks is the wrong solution
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23 July 2012
Shadow banking has been preoccupying regulators for months. IFLR asked Edouard Vieillefond, MD of the French regulator's regulatory policy and international affairs division, how the activity should be supervised
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18 July 2012
The US Federal Reserve chairman yesterday branded the Libor setting process as structurally flawed. US and UK market players outline the required reforms. But equivalent indices must also change if confidence in the system is to be restored
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10 July 2012
Barclays' rate-fixing scandal has highlighted widespread inefficiencies within the Libor setting process. IFLR asked readers should Libor be scrapped? Here’s what they said
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05 July 2012
As Europe’s regulatory framework for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives takes shape, indirect clearing is firming up as a key – and European-centric – debate