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The best quotes: Sifma’s 2011 Annual Meeting

Indian FDI liberalisation may lead to policy reform

FDI revisions reveal PBOC’s currency fears

Small companies face tougher FCPA scrutiny

Why German restructuring reform must be bolder

Euro high yield issuers standardise disclosure

Citi: Retail high yield is too risky

Blackrock relieved with final reporting rules

Lenders expect a fight over revolving credit facilities

Cut deals to save emerging market HY restructurings

SEC: Quality of whistleblower filings higher than expected

Nasdaq: Issuers need a voice in US market reform debate

Project sukuk first sets intercreditor precedent

Schapiro: global harmonisation at its highest level

Rare bank and bond financing uses accordion facility, SPV

New financing for Brazil’s middle market

Landmark Air China financing to prompt copycat deals

SEC registration exemption for wall-crossing unlikely

Volcker to “dramatically affect” equity liquidity

Anti-China sentiment to delay Shanghai foreign equities trade

How aggregate covered bonds can help smaller Aus ADIs

Banks pushed to segment under Sifi framework

Anglo American’s De Beers purchase explained

Puerto Rico sets P3 example for US

How MF Global will change customer fund supervision

Lawyers attack AIFMD technical advice

Free web seminar: Understanding Volcker

Australian covered bond first reveals tax problems

SEC reverse merger rule’s intentions queried

What to expect from Indonesian private equity

The Indonesian M&A structuring quirks to watch out for

Indonesia’s high yield issuers call for clearer export rules

The future of rupiah bonds issues in Indonesia

MAC risks shown by Sberbank merger

Banks lobby for Indonesia Material Transaction rule change

Olympus accounting scandal: lessons learnt and questions raised

Market defends complex sukuk structures

Cocos: how agencies will approach hybrids

What to expect from APRA’s Basel III liquidity reforms

HKEx and SFC to revise company listings Joint Policy Statement

HKEx: Our listings need to be simplified

HKEx: what to expect in the offshore renminbi equity market

SFC calls for global approach to financial centre control

Citi triumphs in first Asia Women in Business Law Awards

Editorial: Impossible to predict

Americas: US thought leader status is over

Asia: A clampdown, but to whose benefit?

Europe: The eurozone conundrum

New financing for Brazil’s middle market

DFSA slams complex Islamic structures

Project sukuk first sets intercreditor precedent

How MF Global will change customer fund supervision

FSB admits bail-in weak spot

Indian FDI liberalisation may lead to policy reform

Small companies face tougher FCPA scrutiny

Anglo American’s De Beers purchase explained

FDI revisions reveal PBOC’s currency fears

Volcker to “dramatically affect” equity liquidity

How aggregate covered bonds can help smaller Aus ADIs

Citi: Retail high yield is too risky

Europe, Middle East and Africa

Americas

Asia Pacific

A grand union

Middle East awards

A difficult landscape

Predictions for 2012

Wakala-mudaraba structure to take off

Year of the multilatina

Liberalisation to continue

Opening up

Calm within the storm

LMA brings leveraged document to Africa

HKEx to see off challengers

Volcker Rule

Going in one direction

Private equity

Derivatives regulation

Brokers to face MF Global legacy

Expect a fight

No clampdown in sight

Clarity for CoCos

US legislation will pass (finally)

HKEx speaks out

Foreign access delayed

A new safe haven

A new era

FSB, Deutsche clash over CoCos

More clarity needed

A cure for all ills?

A shift of focus

Will this time be different?

A matter of perspective

LatAm’s new competition

After Del Monte

A watchdog with a strong bite

Europe on alert

A lender’s view

More deals, new structures

Late payment on bank enforcement procedures

Minimum fines for late filing are constitutional

A gateway to easy registration of your yacht

Foreign insurers and brokers able to underwrite agricultural insurance

Possible changes in the financial sector in El Salvador

Reform of Greek Insolvency Law

The new Financial Services Authority

New rules on short selling of shares during public offerings

Offering circulars relating to securities issued by companies

Transition to risk-based supervision

Hiring foreign personnel in Peru

Securing of syndicated financings in Poland (part one)

On the path to unification of the European investment trust market

Action plan for sound underwriting practices

Winds of change in Spanish distressed debt

New capital adequacy rules for Swiss banks

Fair Trade Act amended

Countdown to March 18 2012

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