May 2004

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Cayman Islands

China

German study pushes securitization reform

Corporate treasurers launch ratings agency code

FSA fines individual director

NYSE settles with specialist trading firms

Investors back IASB derivatives accounting rules

US private equity firms tap into IPO pipeline

UK government to correct insolvency law

Korean deal opens mortgage-backed market

Charles Russell and Berwin Leighton advise on AIM offer

Portugal launches first tax securitization in Europe

Taweelah structure sets model for use of project bonds

Debt-equity hybrids to spur new wave of offerings

Oil mergers boost US law firms

Cutting edge close-up: How sponsors financed the first Caspian pipeline to the Mediterranean

European Financial Services Forum 2004

Cost of 8-K rules could surpass Sarbanes-Oxley

Singapore's due diligence reform splits banks

Denmark

Finland

Hong Kong

India

Indonesia

Ireland

Japan

South Korea

The Netherlands

Portugal

Sweden

Lobbying on Europe's bank capital directive

The threat to issuers from Europe's transparency law

Poison pill ruling may weaken French targets

US courts turn cold on foreign plaintiffs

Why eBay heightens risk for share-dealing directors

How Asia could improve its secured lending regimes

Tailoring structured notes to the Hong Kong public

How EU prospectus reform affects convertibles

The month in a minute

Bank of Italy bars access to investors

Enron lawsuit threatens swaps

EU tells Germany to drop Volkswagen Act

SEC adopts new rules on market timing

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