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Issuers and stock exchanges must do more to ensure investors can rely on publicized information about their listed securities. Andrew Crooke reports

The Swedish legislator (riksdagen) issued new rules regarding both right of priority and floating charges on July 17 2003.

Foreign investors may want to choose arbitration rather than local courts in Indonesia, says John Savage

Banks can learn from the speedy UK court proceedings that Nomura used to win a dispute with CSFB. By Brendan Cash and Edward Sparrow

The Turkish Ministry of Industry and Trade (the Ministry) issued Communiqué 2003/3 (the communiqué) in July, simplifying the procedures for setting up joint stock corporations and limited liability companies. The Ministry also removed several bureaucratic requirements, thereby eliminating unnecessary obstacles and ensuring a shortened process for setting up companies in Turkey.

The group restructuring of MBf Holdings synthesized the terms of two schemes of arrangement in a single set of international bond documentation. By Evan Cohen and Bobby Ladwa

Securities law enforcers aim to help each other retrieve the profits of fraud, reports Andrew Crooke in Seoul

Irish legislators' recent overhaul of the country's securitization framework, designed to make Ireland a first-choice location for onshore special purpose vehicles (SPVs), is paying off. Last month the Bank of Ireland closed the first collateralized debt obligation (CDO) using an Irish special purpose vehicle, the €409 million Partholon CDO. The offering, backed by a diversified portfolio of secured and mezzanine leveraged loans, is expected to be the first in a series issued by the bank as it looks to expand its leveraged finance business.

Singapore Power closed its multi-currency global bond issue in late October after choosing a mix of English, New York and Singapore law to govern its new medium term note (MTN) programme.

Astro All Asia Networks, Malaysia's leading pay-TV operator, has become the first foreign-incorporated company to list on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange.