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  • European proposals on solvency requirements for life reinsurers could quadruple existing capital requirements, says Standard & Poor's.
  • The European Commission is looking to remove obstacles to cross-border mergers in the banking industry.
  • Japan: bengoshi are crossing over to international firms Law firms in Japan are racing to convince senior lawyers at rival practices to switch firms as next April's market liberalization approaches.
  • In 2004 the Danish Parliament is expected to adopt new provisions in the Danish Securities Trading Act implementing, among other things, the Market Abuse Directive. Meanwhile, the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) has rendered two decisions interpreting the Danish insider trading rules.
  • Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have advised on the $3.6 billion sale of a real estate loan portfolio by German bank Hypo Real Estate to US private equity house Lone Star.
  • Allen & Overy has advised Citigroup on the creation of the first structured investment vehicle (SIV) to include a mezzanine tranche. Sedna Finance Corporation is the 17th SIV, but makes advances on previous similar structured finance vehicles by adding a second layer of debt from the outset.
  • Bank of Ireland has launched the jurisdiction's first mortgage-covered bond, testing both the market's appetite and the legislation permitting such bonds with a three times oversubscribed €2 billion offering.
  • Substantial amendments to China's Company Law are believed to have been proposed and may be on the agenda of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress this year.
  • Nobody expects . . . the EU Accounts Modernization Directive Charles Mayo of Simmons & Simmons answers some of the questions raised by the UK's implementation of the EU Accounts Modernization Directive
  • Proposal for Swedish governance code released Dick Lundqvist and Niclas Rockborn of Gernandt & Danielsson Advokatbyrå outline the details of the new proposal for a Swedish corporate governance code