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  • Russia's Gazprom has successfully securitized over $1 billion of future gas exports, despite a local risk climate best described as uncertain and a problematic legal regime.
  • The UK's Financial Services Authority is investigating Citigroup's unusual sale and buyback activities in the government bond market. French and German regulators are also examining the trades.
  • US banks that support ABCP programmes are preparing for life under new capital requirements. James Croke and Peter Manbeck explain
  • Questions remain over how effective SEC proposals to register hedge fund advisers will be in preventing fraud, say Mark Bergman, Yvonne Chan and Marco Masotti
  • German banks are looking with increasing urgency at ways to rid themselves of their portfolios of non-performing loans, but legal hurdles remain, say Oliver Kessler and Melanie Schlage
  • The revival of the French equity markets is putting the country's untested initial public offering rules on trial. Andrew Bernstein and Valérie Lemaitre make the initial assessment
  • A new Companies Act is proposed to replace the existing Companies Act of 1956. The new legislation aims to simplify and be more responsive to current situations, but some aspects of the concept paper are unlikely to be conducive to corporate and commercial expectations.
  • A recent decision in Canada illustrates the increased exposure of directors and officers to personal liability in Canada. In Kerr v Danier Leather Inc the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario imposed liability on the CEO and CFO of Danier for making misrepresentations in a prospectus.
  • The first board of directors of the Capital Markets Authority (CMA), and its first chairman, the recent deputy governor of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, Jummaz Al Suhaimi, have been appointed by Royal Decree A/114, dated 1 July 2004.
  • The Hong Kong Landlord and Tenancy (Consolidation) Amendment Ordinance 2003 (the Ordinance) was passed on June 30 2004 and came into effect on July 9 2004. It aims to remove security-of-tenure provisions for residential tenancies and to remove the minimum notice period requirement in relation to non-residential tenancies.