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Courts put the brake on class actions

UK banks bear the brunt of Mifid

An old idea whose time has passed

After a planning process spanning years and a parliamentary debate lasting 11 months, Indonesia has on May 2 2007 passed a new investment law (Law 25/2007). The Law replaces the two separate laws which dealt with domestic and foreign investment respectively and covers capital investment in all sectors. The Law is an attempt to boost Indonesia's investment climate and give teeth to the drive to accelerate the development of the national economy. Indonesia is yet to fully recover from the 1998 Asian financial crisis: investment last year was 3% of total gross domestic product, well below the 10% of GDP realized before the crisis.

FTSE and Fortune 500 companies go their separate ways Chief executives at the world's biggest companies expect high levels of demerger activity over the next year, according to research from Allen & Overy.

Almost the first renminbi bond in HK

Ignore the ABN/Barclays financing row

The migration technique that transformed Schefenacker

The UK must consider plea bargaining

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has, via its notification dated August 7 2007, issued a circular amending the policy regulating external commercial borrowings (ECB). The salient features are as follows.