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04 February 2013
The nominations for this year’s IFLR Europe awards have been announced
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01 February 2013
Picking a capital instrument in 2013 involves numerous design considerations, each of which has its own set of rules and requirements
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28 August 2012
Europe’s securitisation market will be severely damaged if the proposed credit rating agencies regulation comes into effect, as planned, before year’s end
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23 May 2013
The chairman of the high level expert group charged with examining possible structural reforms to the EU’s banking sector, has revealed why he believes structural separation is the best way to save Europe’s banks
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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
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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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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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
The International Bar Association's (IBA) president outlines why it's now time for international law firms to seriously review their practices
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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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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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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
Following US Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s pledge to repeal the Dodd-Frank Act, if elected, speculation has grown as to whether US-style Liikanen reforms could feasibly replace Volcker
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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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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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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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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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21 August 2012
Bankers in the UK have warned the US probe into Iranian money laundering is set to get much worse. Here's why
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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