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A leading securities group has called for China’s central government to develop a more streamlined repatriation approval process in the offshore renminbi market

Should issuers and investors think more about offshore renminbi currency risk?

Due diligence is a good thing, but it can be dangerous to expect your lawyers to do everything

European high yield is booming. But a letter obtained by IFLR reveals that the largest investors are unhappy, believing senior secured structures to be unfair. Banks have a fight on their hands.

Paul Koster, chief executive of the Dubai Financial Services Authority, discusses the priorities and challenges of the region’s key financial hub

On the face of it, the high yield market is a happy place, with record deal volumes, a liquid market and a seemingly long pipeline. But all is not well with European investors, as IFLR reveals this month in its cover story.

Polonius' admonition to son Laertes came long before investors in financial institutions began to contemplate the full import of regulatory initiatives that require bail-in mechanisms or give banking authorities considerable discretion to convert bondholders into equity holders.

Luis Alonso García Muñoz-Najar

As part of the efforts towards strengthening the Nigerian financial landscape, the Nigerian government and its agencies have in the last year embarked on extensive legal reforms which include the recently published Code of Corporate Governance for Public Companies 2011. In a further development, the Nigerian Accounting Standards Board (NASB) is seeking the passage of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria Bill 2008 which is pending before the Nigerian National Assembly. The Bill seeks, among other things, to repeal the Nigerian Accounting Standards Board Act 2003.

Anthony Coleby