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The Libor rate-fixing scandal has spared few banks, and tainted some of the world’s most influential regulators. The benchmark rate needs to change. The question is how?

HFT critics have pounced on the Knight Capital, Bats and Facebook trade glitches. But some reforms could do more harm than good

Spurred by a specialist global arbitration panel and Isda’s consultation, the financial sector is embracing different dispute resolution clauses

The bankruptcy of Mexico’s Vitro tested US international insolvency laws, and serves as a warning to both creditors and debtors

Sharia finance and real estate are a perfect match. And they work together beyond the traditional Islamic finance markets

Pre-merger notification has arrived in Brazil. Here’s a practical guide to obtaining competition clearance under the new rules

An FCPA or Bribery Act allegation is troubling enough, but the larger threat could be collateral lawsuits

After a four-year lull, securitisation is easing its way back into China. Despite the market's unenthusiastic response to the People's Bank Of China's (PBOC) plan, announced in March, to allow five participating banks to securitise credit assets, developments elsewhere give a sense of China's securitisation goals.

Diversification of Russia’s banking sector following its accession to the WTO will be constrained by raising global capital requirements. But the sector should be bolstered by loan standardisation expected this year

During the past 10 years, Honduras has made great progress in the protection of financial users' rights. One of the most significant advances was the enactment on February 3 2010 of the Rules for Strengthening the Financial Transparency, Culture and Customer Care for Financial Users in Supervised Financial Institutions (Resolution 223/26-01-2010) (the Transparency Rules) which were later amended by the Resolution GE 1631/12-09-2011 and supplemented by Resolution GE 1632/12-09-2011 (the Supplementary Rules) effective as of October 8 2011.