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  • Real reform is being implemented in many segments of US markets. Corporate funding has benefited greatly by this process. Funding cost spreads for US corporations (between rates paid by high-yield growth firms and those of high-grade firms) have narrowed from nearly 8% last October to around 4% today. This trend propelled US debt and equity markets out of an awful slump.
  • David Bernstein, of Clifford Chance, says a Delaware Supreme Court decision to overrule a merger agreement between NCS and Genesis risks damaging the state's role as the most popular company base in the US
  • The Act XV of 2003 on the Prevention and Impediment of Money Laundering will set aside Act XXIV of 1994 of the same title and provides extended and more sophisticated regulations against money laundering in Hungary. The new act has been expected since the September 11 terror attacks in New York, and it is also a result of harmonization with EU legislation relating to the same matter. The new act will come into force on June 16 2003.
  • US senators query Wall Street research settlement
  • Exasperation with market regulators is common. Suing the watchdog is less so. But that is precisely what US hedge fund Elliott Associates is planning to do in Germany, calling into question not only the role of the regulator in takeovers, but the takeover regime itself.
  • Investors gave Uruguay a firm vote of support for its planned debt restructuring last month when 90% of creditors signed up for its groundbreaking bond swap.
  • On May 5 the Indian parliament passed The Electricity Bill, which was originally brought before the assembly in August 2001. The comprehensive Electricity Act aims at replacing three existing Acts governing the power sector: the 1910 Indian Electricity Act; the 1948 Electricity Supply Act; and the 1998 Electricity Regulatory Commissions Act.
  • New Zealand's record of enforcement against alleged insider traders speaks for itself - not a single conviction and only two cases of insider trading ever brought to trial. A third case is currently pending. But will the introduction of criminal penalties improve the effectiveness of NewZealand's insider trading regime?
  • Investors are reluctant to buy European high yield bonds. Rob Mannix reports on how lawyers might just change that
  • Banks will shy away from Singapore deals unless regulators can explain how new rules affect liability on international public offerings. Andrew Crooke reports