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  • With US municipal bonds looking more attractive, overseas investors need to understand the complex tax and regulatory requirements associated with them
  • Investors will purchase shares in US issued covered bond pools by the end of 2012, creating liquidity in the US mortgage market and lowering investment in foreign issued covered bonds. However a compromise needs to be reached to address Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) concerns.
  • Hong Kong Stock Exchange officials outline the future of depositary receipts, the Joint Policy Statement and the offshore renminbi equity market
  • Andreas Moll Switzerland intends to implement the capital adequacy rules of the international Basel III framework for all banks registered in Switzerland. The Swiss Federal Department of Finance (FDF) has released the amended Capital Adequacy Ordinance for consultation, and the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (Finma) has done likewise with its adapted circulars.
  • Chinonyelum Uwazie Vincent Iweze If recent speeches by the Director General of the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission are anything to go by, by 2012 Nigerian capital market operators will be exposed to a risk-based approach to supervision. As plans are underway to consolidate the risk-based approach, this paper considers some of its interesting implications for the Nigerian capital market.
  • Johann Henry Those people who live in the northern hemisphere have come to the end of yet another summer and are moving quickly through autumn into a northern winter. On the flip side (no pun intended) those in the southern hemisphere have bid farewell to old man winter and will themselves move quickly through a southern spring into summer.
  • Dr Teuta Dobi Endrit Shijaku In recent years in Albania the number of non-performing loans has been on the rise and the courts are facing an increasing number of default loan cases. Banks are turning their eyes towards the judiciary to see the courts’ reaction.
  • The 383 questions in October’s proposed Volcker Rule have pushed debate on the rule’s more salient points into 2012. For the early part of the year, the more imminent question is timing.
  • As India’s primary equity markets continue to suffer amid wider market jitters, market participants are preparing for a regulatory shift in focus in 2012 from domestic to foreign investment.
  • Despite worries about falling listing volumes on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx), lawyers expect that it will remain the region’s strongest exchange.