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REGULATORY CAPITAL IS BROKEN

How Basel should change

Give Basel II a chance

Sponsored article: Continuous legal review

How to make money

Aegon hires in-house counsel; Ex-SEC director joins Cravath in New York; O'Melveny & Myers hires from Lehman Asia

JP Morgan issues new debt; Latham on Chevy Chase takeover; Gide helps build new football stadium

A limited start for Reits in China

US undermines convertibles

There's an IFRS fight on

EC makes ratings agencies accountable

ECB conditions undermine English loans

Banks split on disclosure

Sensible rights issue reform, but it could have gone further

The Fed creates its own bailout tool: 13.3

Cox to unite regulators now

Don't drive banks offshore

Reform bank capitalisation

Katrina Jackiewicz, Goldman Sachs

The crisis debate

This is not an emergency

ADRs for sale!

Standardised validation

Light touch is firming up

Control through settlement

The Great Dying

Adjust to changing times

Ignoring trustees is very risky

The great deleveraging

We need clarity

Not so marked to market

No more rules

Make money from the crisis

A blind bailout

Don't sacrifice competition

Selective but effective bailout

Market disruption clause

Back to basics banking

How new tender rules work

Privatisation vouchers Part 1

New Personal Income Tax Law

State-owned assets law

New Capital Market Act

Emerging judicial perspectives

Ippan Shadanhojin entities; New share certificate system

Foreign issuances; SCR privatisations

Energy Reform falls short

Ban on short selling

Credit Information System Act

State guarantees

Own funds of NBFIs

Financing a power plant

Retail endorsement at DIFC; Pledge Law 14 of 2008

Banking M&A

New corporate restructuring scheme

90A: Fuel for litigation

Reforms to benefit everyone

New agreements forced to fit political demands

Asia private equity

Securities non-delivery penalties

FIEA amendment

CDS and the crisis

Capitalism’s advocate

Tweaks to a sound system

Amended securities regulation

M&A and the Competition Law

Don’t regulate hedge funds

Changes in public procurement

A unique way to avoid volatility

Central regulation of European banks?

Foreign-cubed case rejected

Restructuring US debt

Bonds must be financed, whatever the cost

Federal Reserve will help distressed bank takeovers

Insolvency will depend on politics

Registration of listed companies

Taxation: Circular 958

New banking system rules

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