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  • French usury law not applicable to corporate bonds
    In a boost to high-yield lending in France, the minister of economy has resolved a long-running debate by clarifying that French usury law does not apply to corporate bonds.
    February 01 2003
  • What Basel II means for specialized lending
    The latest draft of the Basel Capital Accord proposes to treat project finance, asset finance and commodities finance differently from conventional lending. Nicholas Budd of Denton Wilde Sapte explains how
    February 01 2003
  • Hong Kong
    The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) is looking forward to a new era in Hong Kong's financial markets with the long-awaited Securities and Futures Ordinance (SFO) due to come into effect on April 1 2003.
    February 01 2003
  • Wall Street deals leave the future of research unclear
    Who will pay for independent research if not the investment banking arms of Wall Street firms? Steven Lofchie of Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, looks at the latest US moves to curb analyst conflicts
    February 01 2003
  • Korean bond overcomes privatization risk
    The first global bond offering from one of Korea Electric Power Corporation's (Kepco's) generation subsidiaries has set a useful precedent for the market, showing how to avoid triggering a default on bonds should the issuer be privatized in future.
    February 01 2003
  • City firms square up for UK supermarket scramble
    London's merger and acquisition lawyers have begun the new year rushed off their feet after no less than six UK supermarkets prepared to bid for the country's fourth largest food retailer Safeway.
    February 01 2003
  • Bond Market Association releases draft netting agreement
    The Bond Market Association (TBMA) last month released a proposal draft of a new version of its Cross-Product Master Agreement (CPMA). The Agreement is an industry standard intended to harmonize agreements among agents conducting transactions in the swaps, repo, securities lending and currency markets. The revised draft takes the first version of the CPMA and expands its scope with the aim of reducing risk and instability in those markets.
    February 01 2003
  • US listing burdens partly-blamed for Chinese IPO withdrawal
    What was to be the first ever New York listing of a Chinese private enterprise has been shelved, in part because of added regulatory burdens imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
    February 01 2003
  • UK company uses Chapter 11 to stay solvent at home
    For the first time a UK company is relying on US bankruptcy proceedings to protect it from US creditors while remaining solvent elsewhere.
    February 01 2003
  • Italy
    Italy's regions, provinces, municipalities and other local entities can now securitize proceeds derived from the divestment of real estate assets under Law No 289 (December 27 2002). These territorial entities have become equal, in this respect, to the central government, which can finalize this kind of transaction under Law Decree No 351 (September 25 2001) as converted with amendments into Law No 419 (November 23 2001). For more details see IFLR, International briefings, January 2002.
    February 01 2003
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