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The Panamanian bank has used a contractual structure to issue Latin America’s first cross-border covered bond

Are banks best-placed to assess their risks when calculating regulatory capital charges?

Derek Baird

The region’s foremost female lawyers were celebrated at Euromoney Legal Media Group’s second annual Asia Women in Business Law Awards last month

European regulators have recently retracted two controversial clearing proposals. But how much will this help an industry grappling with indirect clearing models?

India’s securities regulator is looking for inspiration abroad. Here’s how the US and Hong Kong are changing local enforcement and disclosure rules

The circulation last month of compromise terms relating to the establishment of a European banking union marked the latest attempt to break a stalemate in member state discussions on the proposals. But EU lawyers believe such a union will be ineffective without treaty change.

Chisom Udechukwu In the face of rapid globalisation, the fundamental objective of corporate restructuring is to reposition an organisation against the high tide of business failure and maximise shareholder value. Some obvious reasons for corporate restructuring include the need for greater competitiveness, increased profitability, diversification and/or compliance with regulatory or statutory provisions. Corporate restructuring is typically divided into two main categories differentiated in terms of expansion or divestment technique. Srivastava and Mushtaq argue in the Asian Journal of Technology & Management Research (Vol. 01 – Issue 01, Jan–Jun 2011) that expansion techniques include mergers, takeovers, franchising, intellectual property rights acquisitions and holding company arrangements, whereas divestment techniques encompass sell offs, de-mergers, slump sales, management buy-outs, arrangements on sale and compromise. They argue for a third class of restructuring which includes share repurchasing, management buy in, reverse merger and equity carve-out.

Governments could have a tougher time agreeing restructuring plans with creditors following a landmark US court ruling on Argentina's sovereign debt default of 2001.

Foreign investors will soon be landing