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  • European finance ministers have rejected quarterly reporting for companies. The European Commission wanted all the EU's 7,000 listed companies to move to a US system of quarterly reporting, but a compromise over the terms of the forthcoming Transparency Directive will allow listed companies to publish audited financial statements only twice a year, with a general description of their financial position.
  • Ratings agencies Fitch and Standard & Poor's have both issued reports criticizing credit derivatives.
  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe strengthened its real estate finance and securitization practices recently in Tokyo after hiring senior Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom specialist Mark Brooks as a partner.
  • The UK's Financial Services Authority has officially ruled that banks can no longer issue tax-deductible securities that will qualify as core tier one capital.
  • Non-EU companies with securities listed in the EU could face bills of up to $10 million after European finance ministers decided to force them to comply with international accounting standards (IAS) by 2006.
  • The Securities and Exchange Commission has taken the first steps on the road to a regulatory overhaul of US mutual funds.
  • New securities laws aim to bring international standards of transparency to Russia's capital markets. Andrey Yakushin explains
  • President Putin has a track record of being friendly towards business. But with the country's leading businessman in jail, are foreign investors underestimating Russian risk? By Simon Crompton
  • In traditional models, it is the job of central banks to moderate credit cycles. By that measure, there is little to say that is favourable about the work of the US Federal Reserve System between April 1998 and October 2002. For nearly six years before 1998, conditions slowly improved, going from unnerving through cool to Goldilocks on the chart. Almost everyone claims credit for that virtuous cycle. The horrible period from 1998 to 2002, however, remains unclaimed.
  • Financial services companies in Hong Kong can now use a new trade pact with China to gain a lead over rivals elsewhere. By Andreas Lauffs, Eugene Lim and David Lee