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HKMC adapted an existing debt programme to achieve the first retail offering of mortgage-backed bonds in Hong Kong. Adrienne Showering and Lydia Lye explain how

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and White & Case helped structure a recent securitization for Rosbank to achieve a rating higher than that of the originator. The Eurobond backed by credit card receivables won a B-plus rating, a level higher than that assigned to the parent bank thanks to the negation of Russian currency risk and a solid security package to protect investors.

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.

Rating agency Standard & Poor's has confirmed that, for rating purposes, true-sale assignment in Germany is valid, despite a court decision to the contrary in May 2004.

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

The scope of Islamic financing has expanded in Europe with the first Sharia-compliant leveraged buyout.

Former regulator: Ashley Alder By shifting its focus from front-end vetting to enforcement, Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has addressed some of the market's concerns about overregulation and under-enforcement, said Ashley Alder, the SFC's former head of corporate finance.

Almost 2,500 lawyers from around the world converged on Auckland last month at the International Bar Association's annual conference to discuss various issues facing the profession. One of the themes to emerge from the conference was the level of concern and attention that in-house and private practice lawyers are paying to governance standards and market reputations - both within corporates and at law firms. The profession is having to face up to potentially wide-ranging implications for its own behaviour and liabilities

The Indonesian parliament has approved a new Act on Bankruptcy and Debt Moratorium. Among the various provisions stipulated in the Act, new provisions on the requirements to approve a composition plan in debt moratorium stand out.