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Around the world, the regulatory environment for banking is changing. Banks and other lenders are facing a greater compliance burden for many of their products and for governance of the institution as a whole. Sometimes this is to the detriment of the banks and of business. More often, it is creating confidence in the local markets.

Adam Glass of Linklaters explains US rules for swap counterparties

Mee-Hyon Lee and Helen Sohn of Lee & Ko discuss how master trust securitization is invigorating the market and how RMBS & SLBS are applied in furthering Korea's economic and educational policies

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By Erica Howard, John Neighbour, Bob Clair, Damian Preshaw and Jan Martens of KPMG

An abstract definition of Public-private partnerships (PPPs) would classify a PPP agreement as any joint venture between a public body and a private company, typically involving the joint ownership of a special purpose vehicle (SPV) established under company law, to work in collaboration on a variety of projects. PPPs are a type of public procurement akin to traditional types of public contracts. What differs is the financial aspects of the agreement and the precise transfer of risk in the contractual relationship. This means that the PPP market is effectively a new market. A recent Greek law (Law 3389/2005) introduces the first regulation on PPPs in Greece and opens the market to this new type of public procurement.

The CSRC is to issue new administrative rules on the merger and acquisition of listed companies. The draft of the new rules completed a routine public review on May 31 2006 and is expected to be issued very soon. As a participant in the drafting of the new rules, we believe it will have significant influence on the Chinese market.