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  • The Securities (Miscellaneous) (Amendment) Rules 2002, which came into effect on November 15 2002, introduced new exemptions for section 80 of the Securities Ordinance for relieving prohibition of the uncovered short selling of securities.
  • European competition regulators will not go easy on the financial services industry just because they are keen to promote a single financial market, according to competition commissioner Mario Monti.
  • The Securities and Exchange Commission has brought its first cases against companies allegedly breaking Regulation Fair Disclosure, a rule designed to prevent selective disclosure of corporate information.
  • On November 7 2002, the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the People's Bank of China jointly issued the Interim Measures on Administration of Domestic Securities Investment of Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFII). These measures allow foreign investors to invest in publicly traded, yuan-denominated A shares, treasury and corporate bonds listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges. The new rules became effective December 1.
  • A senior SEC official has again indicated that foreign issuers will not win exemptions from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act,calling local law differences "details".
  • Two recent court rulings in Hong Kong that expand the powers of provisional liquidators will assist in restructurings. And not before time, says Tom Vaizey of Johnson Stokes & Master
  • Following recent regulations, French banks must take a share of the blame if investors feel they have been misled about a deal. Rob Mannix asks lawyers how well their clients will adapt to the new rules
  • Last month the SEC approved proposed new rules on the conduct of lawyers under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Richard Hall at Cravath Swaine & Moore questions whether the Commission should be regulating the legal profession at all
  • The signing of Vietnam's first build-operate-transfer project financing is being tipped to show the way for further deals of this type in the power sector.
  • Attempts by Korea's financial regulators to stop consumer credit from overheating look likely to open the way for international residential mortgage-backed securitizations.