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  • There has been much publicity lately around recent accounting developments. David Barnes and Simon Stephens of Deloitte look at IFRS, US and UK GAAP, and progress on convergence
  • With structured finance expanding to more non-US markets, Patrick Tadie, Paul Wilden, Jocelyn M Lynch and Newsville Foster of The Bank of New York explain the challenges and the role trustees play in managing the risks
  • Investors with a high risk-return preference may wish to take note. Uncertainty about the future regulatory regime for investment funds (IFs) has led to a big drop in trading of shares owned by IFs on the Sarajevo Stock Exchange (SASE). A new draft Law on Companies for Managing Funds and on Funds in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) has been in parliamentary procedure for over a year.
  • As of May 20 2006, the Austrian Takeover Amendment Act took effect, implementing the EU Takeover Directive and substantially changing Austrian takeover law, in particular as to mandatory offer requirements. As part of the reform, a new Minority Shareholders Squeeze Out Act has been implemented, allowing a shareholder who owns directly or indirectly 90% or more of the stated capital of the target a squeeze out of the minority. The main changes to the Takeover Act (TA) include:
  • The Bank of Albania (BoA) formulates, adopts and implements the foreign exchange policy of Albania and maintains a supervisory role in foreign exchange activities in accordance with Law 8269 of December 23 1997 (On the Bank of Albania), Law 8365 July 2 1998 (On banks in the Republic of Albania) and the Regulation on Foreign Exchange Activities 101 of December 10 2003 (FX Regulation).
  • Although Russian takeover reform has all the right intentions, some of its procedures will make for a slightly awkward process, say Mark Banovich, Yulia Cherkassova and Kirill Ryurikov
  • Air Berlin recently registered as a UK plc before listing in Germany. It can only be a matter of time before another German company does the same, say Volker Triebel and Christopher Horton
  • New rules to encourage placements by institutional investors in India will stimulate the domestic markets, says Cyril Shroff
  • A scam to impersonate retail investors in an IPO is very worrying for India's developing capital markets, says Sandeep Parekh