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Paul Lejot, Douglas Arner and Mylene Chan of Hong Kong University call for legal, regulatory, fiscal and systemic change

Ken Rushton, director of listing at the Financial Services Authority, talks to IFLR's Rob Mannix about proposed changes to UK listing rules

A group of investors is forcing issuers to look again at clauses unchanged for decades. Rob Mannix reports

Rating agencies said Czech securitization would require legislative change. On the Home Credit Finance deal, lawyers convinced them otherwise. By Christopher Lewis, Harm van Berkum and Tomas Otruba

Herbert Smith and Stibbe advised European IT group Getronics on a €100 million ($117 million) convertible bond, one of the first European deals to use coupon escrow to secure interest payments.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised the arrangers on a World Cup bond issued by football's governing body, Fifa, to transfer the risk of cancellation to the capital markets.

The Basel Committee has heeded industry concerns and is dropping the requirement for banks to hold capital against expected losses.

Five years after the first global share deal, only three more have come to market. Megan Murphy finds out why

Dematerialized shares are shares for which no certificates may be issued. Now Japanese joint-stock companies are generally required to issue share certificates. Many public companies' share certificates are deposited at the Japan Securities Depository Center, Incorporated (JASDEC), the central securities depository providing both depository and book-entry settlement services for marketable securities. For share certificates that have been deposited at JASDEC, no physical delivery of them is required in order to effect a transfer of shares. In September 2003, the Legislative Council of the Ministry of Justice published an outline for a new law, expected to be passed in 2003 or 2004, which will eliminate the issuance and use of share certificates of public companies and certain non-public companies.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer helped structure a euro-denominated securitization for Korean company Shinhan Card, the first of its type from the country.