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The US Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing to rule on whether non-US financial institutions should be exempt from a ban on making loans to directors.

Malaysia's market regulator is cutting approval times for capital markets deals in an effort to modernize its securities regime.

Reform initiatives at Korea's financial regulator have been thrust into the spotlight after a forced change in leadership mid-way through March.

Ben Maiden reports from New York

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: goals, content and status of implementation

Japanese companies have always disliked the intrusive and burdensome due diligence investigations required for international securities offerings. Piyasena Perera and Joshua Schwab of Allen & Overy explain why the need for capital raising means issuers must overcome cultural, historical and structural concerns

Foreign investors are hoping that two recent distressed asset deals in China are a sign of how the government wants the market to develop. William E Bryson, Mitch Dudek and Beth A Bunnell of Jones Day examine the lessons that China's regulators might learn from Taiwan, where the NFL market has taken off

The number of securitization deals grew by 14% in 2002. Banks continued to tap the markets for regulatory capital through innovative tier I deals. And even the 2.5% fall in global debt issuance was bearable compared with the near disappearance of primary market equity deals. Last year was still not good for debt capital markets lawyers, but it could have been so much worse. Here IFLR publishes, for the first time, tables of the leading legal advisers on tier I debt and convertible bonds as well as its annual tables of advisers on securitization and high-yield deals. Simon Crompton and Catherine McShane report

The Dorchester Hotel, London, March 25

When a Chinese state-owned telecoms operator chose to acquire a near-insolvent foreign company, it had to find the most protected and controlled environment within which to do so. In the first of a two-part analysis, Edward Turner, Sandor Schick and Etienne Gelencsér of Shearman & Sterling look at the buyer’s options