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Beijing-based lawyers debate the impact of government policy on independent and reliable legal advice

"It's tremendously important that we are wide-awake to the potentially adverse, unintended consequences of interest rates being where they are," the Bank of England's head of financial stability Andrew Haldane told IFLR this month, in an exclusive online-only video series. "We need to be super vigilant that markets don't get ahead of themselves, don't become too bubbly."

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In an IFLR video exclusive, the Bank of England’s Andy Haldane on why leverage ratios must form part of quest to simplify bank solvency metrics

Market opinion is sharply divided on whether Cyprus's favourable holding company regime is ringfenced from the effects of its banking crisis.

Timothy Langenkamp, Sidley Austin Trey Monsour, K&L Gates George Davis, O’Melveny & Myers Even by the standards of Houston's breakneck-paced, rough-and-tumble legal market, this spring has shaped up to be a busy one. As April moved into May, K&L GATES announced that it had lured Anthony Newton from Haynes and Boone to its office in Houston, where Newton will apply his knowledge of M&A, refinancings, private equity deals, and tax matters on behalf of oil and gas drillers and other corporate clients. Newton's hire came just days after K&L GATES announced the addition of Bruce Blefeld from Jackson Walker and Trey Monsour from Haynes and Boone as partners in its antitrust and restructuring practices respectively. PAUL HASTINGS hired corporate and securities lawyer Gislar Donnenberg as a partner in its Houston bureau. Donnenberg possesses special expertise in master limited partnerships (MLPs), a form of publicly traded partnership enjoying a surge of interest from both retail and institutional investors.

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Hans Jürgen Meyer-Lindemann, Dechert The most high profile move in London last month was the capture by BAKER & McKENZIE of corporate partner Don Guiney from Freshfields. Guiney had spent the last 16 years at the UK firm and it has been suggested that Baker & McKenzie has made the hire in anticipation of a rise in work in the equity capital markets.

Sanctions are an increasingly important aspect of financial institutions' know-your-client (KYC) measures. But keeping up with ever-changing regulations is proving a challenge

Following the Basel Committee's guidance for meeting the LCR, Australia's Prudential Regulatory Authority has adopted a more conservative stance