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  • This was an exceptional case, but it still broke new ground on the interaction of flawed assets and close-out netting
  • Don't pick apart the proposals of the Hong Kong SFC on protecting investors. Suggest practical alternatives that still fit their spirit
  • How similar are new listings, really? In-house counsel at Europe’s investment banks are complaining that equity advisers are being needlessly difficult on IPO negotiations – potentially scuppering deals.
  • For much of the past year, talk in the Gulf has been about how restructurings would work out. Would shariah law be able to adapt for reorganising Islamic deals? Would local law cope with the influx of new cases and untested legislation? Well, the results have been largely uninteresting.
  • The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today published a guide for investors to help them understand how the securities and futures markets are regulated
  • The Commission thinks these amendments strike a better balance for investors Proposed amendments to the EU Prospectus Directive are making bankers’ counsel very nervous, particularly changes to the rules on the prospectus summary that could make issuers, banks and even the competent authorities liable for investor decisions.
  • The new Hong Kong rules are very flexible In a deal that could provide the structure for more US-based companies to list in Hong Kong, Wynn Resorts has successfully completed an initial public offering for its subsidiary Wynn Macau thanks to flexible disclosure requirements.
  • The Payment Services Directive (PSD) should be implemented in each EEA member state's local legislation on November 1 2009, at the latest. Sweden will not meet this deadline and the official date for the new Swedish legislation is April 1 2010. Some even, looking at the implementation process, consider this date unrealistic and estimate that the legislation may be in place by May or June 2010 at the earliest.
  • The Financing and Money Services Act was passed by the British Virgin Islands (BVI) House of Assembly in May 2009 and is expected to come into force in the near future.
  • On November 11 1999, the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) established a new market named Mothers for high-growth and emerging stocks. Over the course of its 10-year existence, a total of 250 emerging companies listed on Mothers. Because of market and economic changes since its establishment, the TSE has recently announced plans to refocus the objective of Mothers.