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Ji Yeoun Kim Following the amendment to the Enforcement Decree of the Financial Investment Services and Capital Markets Act in September 2011 to introduce Korean hedge funds, 12 hedge funds operated by nine different asset management companies have been registered. To assist in the successful operations of hedge funds in Korea, the Financial Supervisory Service and the Korea Financial Investment Association have issued best practice guidelines for Korean hedge funds and prime brokers which came into effect from December 12 2011.

Following the promulgation of the Act on Prevention of Unjust Acts by Organised Crime Group Members in 1992, organised crime groups in Japan began increasingly to attempt to conceal the true nature of their organisations as ordinary businesses and use more sophisticated methods to generate funds through complex transactions such as equity investments and real-estate transactions.

Colin Riegels Like most other developed offshore jurisdictions, the British Virgin Islands promotes a type of company which seeks to compartmentalise the assets and liabilities of various portfolios away from other portfolios and the company's general assets. In the British Virgin Islands these are known as segregated portfolio companies (SPCs). In other jurisdictions the equivalent type of company is often known as a protected cell company or segregated cell company.

Just around the end-of-year holiday, the Federal Reserve Board proposed several rules related to capital requirements for US banks.

It has been common in Vietnam to see prices listed in foreign currencies, and traditionally items, especially land, have been valued in gold rather than money. However, with the erratic fluctuations in the financial markets, the devaluations of the Vietnamese dong (VND) and the sharp increase in the price of gold, the State of Vietnam has determined to exert stricter control over financial markets and particularly the widespread use of foreign currencies and gold pricing on the domestic market.

Yolanda Berenguer Spanish news reports almost daily feature stories of families being evicted for not meeting their mortgage payments; undoubtedly, this is due to the recession affecting all of Europe, particularly Spain. The figures speak for themselves. Between 2007 and 2010, the number of judicial mortgage foreclosures in Spain increased by 531%. In addition, the overwhelmed state of the courts has resulted in delayed foreclosure proceedings (between 18 and 24 months, in the courts of first instance).

Companies in Austria are finding the capital markets harder to access than most. But there are options

Samurai bonds may be the right tool to solve Europe’s debt and Japan’s currency strength problems. Here’s why, and how they work

European regulators reveal what they really want to see in comment letters

The Loan Market Association (LMA) confirmed to IFLR in December that it is drafting a revised intercreditor agreement following its 2009 agreement.