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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.

The Austrian parliament recently introduced a draft bill amending certain provisions of the Austrian Stock Exchange Act (Börsegesetz - BörseG) and the Austrian Securities Supervision Act (Wertpapieraufsichtsgesetz - WAG). It will implement, among others, EU Directive 2003/6/EC on insider dealing and market manipulation (market abuse) (the Directive) and repeal the existing framework (§§ 48a to 48c BörseG) in favour of a more elaborate regime.

The outgoing European Commission has proposed a directive to make it easier for public companies to alter the size, structure and ownership of their capital.

An elite group of five firms with Linklaters at its head has profited most from the gradual recovery of international equity markets. Rob Mannix reports

Norwich Union in October raised £200 million secured against future business profits, showing an increasing willingness among UK insurers to use securitization as a funding tool.