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Switzerland is about to enact a new Book Entry Securities Act (BESA) and has signed the Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights Held with an Intermediary, concluded on July 5 2006 (the Hague Securities Convention).

The amendment to the Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act (the MRFTA) was passed during the parliamentary plenary session held on July 3 2007. If put into force, this amendment will mark the second amendment to the MRFTA in 2007, after an earlier amendment in April.

The Market in Financial Instruments Act entered into force on August 11 2007. The main reason for its adoption is the implementation of the Market in Financial Instruments Directive (2004/39/EC) (Mifid), the directive on the harmonization of transparency requirements in relation to information about issuers whose securities are admitted to trade on regulated markets (2004/109/EC) (the Transparency Directive), and Directives 2006/48/EC and 2006/49/EC on the capital adequacy of investment firms and credit institutions, in a scope applicable to investment firms.

New national security laws

Almost the first renminbi bond in HK

Cov-lites remain on First Data buyout

The government has stepped in

Ignore the ABN/Barclays financing row

The migration technique that transformed Schefenacker

The cockroach that can't be killed