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The Hungarian Supreme Court has issued a second judgement (BH 2002.364) confirming that assignments by way of security do not survive the assignor's insolvency. Although Supreme Court judgements are not binding as precedent, two recent judgements on this issue cast considerable doubt on the effectiveness of existing methods of taking security over rights and claims.

Since 1996, any entity buying shares in a formerly state-owned enterprise as a result of privatization was excluded from the mandatory buyout obligation (the so-called privatization exemption), set out in the Czech Commercial Code. The mandatory buyout provision of the Code said that anyone buying shares above a specified threshold (including a controlling interest) must offer to buy the shares of minority shareholders.

The SEC has issued the first enforcement actions under its disclosure rules. The cases point to some of the difficulties in applying Regulation Fair Disclosure but should help issuers understand the types of activities it forbids. Leslie Silverman and SK Kang of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, New York, and Sebastian Sperber and James Small in Hong Kong explain

Simon Orton of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer looks at how the UK's new regulator has performed during its first 12 months, and predicts where it will focus attention in 2003

The Ministry of National Economy has unveiled draft legislation setting out the framework for corporate bonds and securitization operations. The purpose of the new rules is to modernize existing legislation on bond issuance and provide Greek companies with new sources of funding. While the government itself has made some use of securitization in recent years, existing legal rules are quite unfavourable, as far as corporates are concerned. The draft attempts to correct this situation by providing a new set of regulations on the issuance of bonds backed by assets, including real estate and monetary claims against third parties, by Greek societe anonymes, as well as some necessary tax relief. New rules on issuing bonds are also proposed, at a time when the use of debt as a means of raising capital is being encouraged by the Athens Exchange and the Ministry of National Economy. It will become possible to issue bonds following a decision to do so by a company's board of directors, rather than needing a shareholders' decision as before.

Samsung Life Insurance has created a new template for Asia's increasingly sophisticated securitization market - cross-border residential mortgage-backed deals from Korea.

Government representatives have agreed on an international convention governing which law applies to cross-border securities transactions. Christophe Bernasconi and Richard Potok, who have spearheaded the negotiations over the past two-and-a-half years, explain the need for the Convention and how it will benefit the securities industry

The launch of Korea's first hybrid tier one issue has opened the way for what some observers predict could be a $3 billion market over the next 12 months.

Ashurst Morris Crisp has advisedthe arranger of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club's securitization, the biggest and most complex UK football financing to date.

A group set up by the EU to advise on the regulation of financial analysts has met for the first time.