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Japanese issuers must overhaul their reporting practices to avoid the attention of increasingly intolerant regulators intent on improving investor confidence. Andrew Crooke reports

General counsel at international companies are going to increasing lengths to ensure compliance with corporate governance codes.

Bankers in Asia are tapping markets from Thailand to Taiwan amid regulators' growing acceptance of credit derivative products, reports Andrew Crooke

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

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.

Parties pursuing the kind of state-investor arbitrations that have mushroomed in Latin America are wrong if they think the Icsid Convention ensures that awards will be enforced, say Edward Baldwin, Mark Kantor and Michael Nolan

Ben Maiden looks at proposals that could change the way issuers tap the US financial markets

After the latest amendment to the Securities and Exchange Law of Japan, more types of legal interest will come under the protection of the Securities Law. The Securities Law defines regulated securities as government bonds, local bonds, corporate bonds, stock certificates or other securities that represent certain interests as specified by a government ordinance. The legal interests represented by those securities will be deemed securities even if certificates are not issued for them. Also, certain legal interests that are not represented by certificates will be deemed securities and will be subject to various regulations under the Securities Law.

The new ministerial cabinet of Indonesia, headed by the president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has announced its objectives for its first 100 days in power.

A new regulation that is genuinely welcomed by the securities industry is a rare sight, so the favour heaped on the SEC's latest proposals comes as something of a surprise. After almost four years of regulatory crackdowns, onslaughts, attacks and clean-ups, now is the perfect time to for lawmakers to give something back to the industry.