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Since the Financial Services Agency shut Citibank's private banking operations because of compliance breaches, market participants have been worrying that this is the start of a crackdown on their operations. Andrew Crooke asks Naohiko Matsuo, the regulator’s director for international financial markets, whether that is true

Disclosure rules are forcing issuers to consider listing outside the EU, reports Michael Evans. Switzerland's SWX sees a chance to win business from its European rivals

Linklaters has advised Deutsche Bank on securitizing public-private partnership (PPP) road construction contracts in Portugal.

The UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) has published a policy update to push the brokerage and funds industries towards a more transparent way of dealing with commissions and other fees.

Bryant Edwards: high-yield chair Latham & Watkins partner Bryant Edwards has been appointed chairman of The European High Yield Association (EHYA). Edwards is a corporate partner at the firm specializing in high-yield and mezzanine finance. He is joined on the EHYA board by three new directors: James Amine, co-head of global leveraged finance at Credit Suisse First Boston; Eric Capp, managing director of high-yield capital markets at JP Morgan in London; and Tim Flynn, managing director and co-head of leveraged finance at Goldman Sachs in London. The EHYA was set up in 2000 to promote knowledge about non-investment grade debt instruments and work towards standardizing products.

New rules that simplify offers to professional investors are welcome, but Hong Kong's shake-up of securities laws falls short on other counts. By Andrew Malcolm

Robert Falkner counters the presumption that equity contracts for differences give rise to market abuse

In the months since the controversial Welcome Break restructuring, bondholders have been analyzing multi-tiered security packages of corporate securitizations with extra care. Bodo Schaar explains how documentation should evolve

In the second of two articles, Jack Lange and Marcia Ellis consider how investors in a Chinese company might realize their gains

Conflicting court decisions over the transfer of receivables have held back whole-business securitization in France. Yet the government has postponed legislative settlement of the issue. Clotilde Dirnat and Jonathan Souffir explain