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  • The Japanese government has submitted tax reform bills to Japan's parliament, the Diet. If enacted as planned, these bills will become law on or after April 1 2003. The tax reform bills include, in particular, proposals for a significant streamlining of and tax reduction in individual income taxation on capital gains and dividends with respect to listed shares, with a view to revitalizing Japanese stock markets.
  • India is proposing to introduce value-added tax (VAT) in the Union Budget for 2003-2004 (dated February 28 2003). This is a significant reform in the country's tax regime.
  • New Regulations on the Administration of Foreign-invested Venture Investment Enterprises were promulgated in China on January 30 2003. The new regulations were put forward jointly by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, Ministry of Science and Technology, State Administration for Industry and Commerce, State Administration of Taxation and State Administration of Foreign Exchange .
  • On January 8 2003 the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan passed the Law On Investments (No 375-II). The new law represents an effort to consolidate separate past legislation governing foreign and direct investment and to level the playing field for domestic and foreign investors.
  • The Bank of Italy has made clear to the market its views on the treatment of repayment clauses in securitization transactions.
  • The recent corporate scandals in the US have, among other things, focussed attention on the issue of the independence of directors generally. In Canada, in the recent Second Cup/Cara decision rendered by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), the OSC briefly highlighted the issue of independence with respect to special committee members and advisers.
  • The signing of a $3.4 billion deal for Sinopec and BASF to build an integrated petrochemical site in Nanjing, eastern China, represents another landmark financing in the mainland.
  • DLA hires 19 from Cameron in Hong Kong
  • The Belgian, Dutch, French, Portuguese and UK authorities have signed an agreement to cooperate in regulating Euronext's derivatives markets.
  • Howard Davies, the chairman of the UK's financial services regulator, has raised doubts about how well Europe's widespread financial services reforms are progressing.