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What to do if a borrower doesn't float and can't afford the stepped-up interest rate

“Banks are scared to death that the government is going to screw Talf up” Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (Talf) subscriptions have fallen as investors fear additional strings will be attached to the government securitisation programme.

Japan has rules that make nominating independent directors easy, but no one uses them. Someone must set up a Governance Improvement Fund

The new body would have to be in London to be credible EU-backed proposals for a single regulator of credit rating agencies (CRAs) make the best of a bad situation, but fall short of providing a long-term solution.

US regulators have to decide the future of the Troubled Asset Relief Programme (Tarp) as the first wave of distressed banks start to return their Tarp borrowings.

The Coke decision was political but backed by some promising antitrust analysis. Mofcom now needs to explain it in greater depth

A warrant, in its general sense, is a security that entitles the holder to purchase or sell a specific number of shares from a company at a particular price, the so-called exercise price, within a certain term according to the terms of the issue. Warrants are often attached to bonds or stocks as sweeteners, issued by companies when they make a new issue of shares, in order to attract potential buyers. As they comprise only a fraction of the price of the share itself, investors may potentially benefit from the growth of a much larger shareholding.

Weil Gotshal & Manges led the field at the IFLR awards at the Waldorf Astoria last month

Offshore investors in China did so without protection, because they had no choice. They are now being burnt in insolvencies. China must fix its investment restrictions, and the practice of its Bankruptcy Law, if it ever wants foreign investment again

China's derivative market has a new master agreement, but regulators are urging caution. The government has reminded state-owned enterprises (SOEs) that derivatives are for hedging risk, not speculating for return.