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RBS managing director, International Capital Market Association (ICMA) board member, and covered bond specialist Tim Skeet discusses recent market developments and the asset class’s future

Luca Bertalot, head of the European Covered Bond Council and deputy secretary general of the European Mortgage Federation, explains how funding models are evolving after the crisis, and the fundamental importance of the Covered Bond Label initiative

Lofti Sekkat, chief executive officer of Crédit Immobilier et Hôtelier discusses the key features of Morocco’s covered bond law, and the process of implementing the legislation in a new jurisdiction

Benedikt Maurenbrecher, Dieter Grünblatt and Stefan Kramer of Homburger on Swiss law’s two different yet complementary concepts of covered bonds

Johan Christian Kongsli, Karl Rosén and Børge Grøttjord of Grette offer a detailed overview of covered bond legislation in Norway

Clifford Chance’s Peter Voisey and Will Sutton outline the regulatory changes affecting the UK covered bond market, but remain optimistic that clarity and certainty will emerge

Jerry Marlatt and Anna Pinedo of Morrison & Foerster ask whether it is time to stop waiting for a US statute

Mary Anne Mason,

How should banks’ CCP default fund exposures be calculated?

Matthieu Grollemund, Dechert Bernhard Gemmel, Bird & Bird One of Europe's biggest stories of the month was the hire by Romanian firm TUCA ZBARCEA & ASOCIATII of Musat & Asociatii co-managing partner Catalin Baiculescu. The move is surprising given Baiculescu spent 15 years at his former firm, and considering high-level partner hires in Romania are rare. In Italy the big news was WHITE & CASE'S further expansion of its debt capital markets offering with the hires of partner Paola Leocani, counsel Elena Radicella Chiaramonte, and their team from Allen & Overy. Since reopening its office in 2011, the firm has been making headway in the capital markets area having already picked up notable mandates including from the Italian state. The US firm was also active in Brussels, hiring Linklaters counsel Matthieu Duplat.