IFLR is part of Legal Benchmarking Limited, 1-2 Paris Garden, London, SE1 8ND

Copyright © Legal Benchmarking Limited and its affiliated companies 2025

Accessibility | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Modern Slavery Statement

Search results for

There are 25,742 results that match your search.25,742 results
  • From October 1 2004, the disclosure requirements for companies listed on the Korea Stock Exchange (KSE) and Kosdaq will be amended to shorten reporting deadlines, reduce the number of disclosure items, require more specific and detailed disclosures, set up a disclosure review committee, institute a penalty point system for violations, and introduce other steps to prevent and detect disclosure violations.
  • In June 2004, an advisory board of the Financial Services Agency (FSA) proposed that foreign issuers in Japan be permitted to file certain disclosure documents in English. It aims to attract foreign issuers to the Japanese market by reducing their costs of preparing disclosure documents in Japanese.
  • The government of India has introduced a Tonnage Tax Scheme (TTS) for Indian shipping companies, through the Financial Bill 2004, presented to the parliament on July 8.
  • To improve competitiveness with its neighboring countries, Indonesia is now in the process of amending its income tax law. If implemented, these amendments would boost tax revenues in the long run. A downside to this effort is that reduced income tax revenues will be incurred in the short term. The finance department of Indonesia has calculated that almost Rp5 trillion ($557 million) would be lost if the amendment were effected immediately. Because of this unpopular short-term result, the government is not expected to pass this law until the presidential election is complete in September 2004.
  • In January 2003, the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong published its conclusions to its consultative paper on amendments to the Listing Rules. Changes to the Rules were formerly announced on January 31 this year and most of the new provisions took effect from March 31 2004.
  • Finland is revising legislation on consumer protection in distance marketing of financial services. A government bill proposing amendments to the Consumer Protection Act to implement the EU Directive 2002/65/EC on distance marketing of consumer financial services was put before the Finnish parliament on June 16 2004.
  • The Danish Companies Act allows payment of interim dividends to the shareholders of Danish public or private limited companies (A/S and ApS companies) from July 1 2004.
  • In a move meant to reform the granting of licensing rights, the National People's Congress has promulgated the Administrative Licensing Law, effective July 1 2004.
  • Bernd Singhof and Michael Schlitt look at how Lufthansa used an auction of underwriters to get better pricing on its recent rights offer
  • The legal advisers to Taiwan's first real estate investment trust have worked closely with regulators to fill in some of the gaps in the one-year-old rules governing these transactions, says Kevin Liao