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Bankers' counsel have called for international banks to be more sensitive to local settlement environments.

Shut the door to over-syndication UK equity lawyers agree with investors' opposition to aggressive syndication on UK initial public offerings (IPOs).

The Indian depositary receipt (IDR) market's long term prospects should not be harmed by the Securities and Exchange Board of India's (Sebi) decision to bar conversion of IDRs to shares of a foreign company.

Juan Ernesto Menjívar The draw-back benefit that had been beneficial for exporters until this year and which consisted in a refund of the 6% of the free-on-board value, was revoked on February 1 2011 when the Legislative Decree containing new laws on this matter entered full force. The benefit was used by individuals and legal entities, foreign or national, who are owners of companies that export or market goods and services of Salvadorian origin.

Esma chairman Steven Maijoor outlines a tougher stance on hedge funds, ETFs and non-European ratings agencies at the ICMA annual general meeting

Steven Maijoor, Esma’s new chairman, explains his position on investor responsibility, the regulator’s resources and its relationship with the EC

The widening of the UK's Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) focus to include wholesale market behaviour indicates a more aggressive role than previously expected, according to lawyers.

Deutsche Bank’s Colin Grassie at the ICMA meeting in Paris Deutsche Bank London head Colin Grassie has attacked the US's derivatives rules under Dodd-Frank, claiming they point to a fundamental misunderstanding of the market.

Senior lenders on one end, juniors on the other The Export-Import Bank of Korea (K-Exim), Korea Trade Insurance Corporation (K-sure) and a group of 11 international commercial bank lenders raised financing for a $2.5 billion greenfield petrochemical facility for Jurong Aromatics on Jurong Island, Singapore.

Ismael Noya de la Piedra On July 28 2011, Peru's newly-elected President Ollanta Humala will take office. This unexpected outcome in the election process resulted in what will be Peru's first leftist democratic government. Perceived as an anti-system candidate with a radical position close to that of Venezuelan President Chavez, it was hard to imagine that Humala could add enough votes to the 31.7% obtained in the first round to end up with over 50% and win the election – particularly when all the other candidates with whom he competed were supporters of the economic model upheld by a majority of the electorate and that had turned Peru into a success story.