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The winners in the M&A boom were the firms with connections

Stock exchanges can't rest on their laurels, say speakers at the Capital Markets Forum

International firms that have been in Japan since 1987 are now reaping the rewards

The competitive working environment and the need to focus on core activities force today's financial institutions to outsource some services, critical to their business, for which they have limited expertise and/or limited funds. Outsourcing offers a cost-efficient business by preventing time loss. The Banking Law and the related legislation recently enacted comprise provisions with respect to outsourcing in light of global trends. The Banking Law provides the definition of outsourcing companies (supporting service providers) in Article 3; however it leaves the details of application to the secondary legislation. The rules regarding the procurement of outsourcing services by banks and authorisation of the service providers – the Outsourcing Regulation, enacted on November 1 2006 – regulates outsourcing companies and the specifications of outsourced services.

Hedge funds and Islamic finance are the themes for 2008, plus the many and varied effects of the credit crunch. Tom Young, Rachel Evans, Nicholas Pettifer and Lynann Butkiewicz report

Akimitsu Kamori of Blakemore & Mitsuki argues that board-led defence strategies are the best way of preventing takeovers

Despite resistance from Japanese business, the government has introduced laws enabling triangular mergers to take place. Koji Toshima and Rintaro Shinohara of Mori Hamada explain how to make the mergers work

Paper bills are awkward to use so a new, cleaner system has been introduced. Kazuhiro Yoshii of Anderson Mori & Tomotsune explains how it will work

Soichiro Fujiwara and Masanori Tsujikawa of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu examine changes in the procedures for minority squeeze-outs and conflicts of interest