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Morgan Stanley has completed a Japanese conduit commercial mortgage-backed securitization, giving Allen & Overy's Tokyo-based US law practice its first completed deal.

After aggressive European growth in 2002, Latham & Watkins is now focusing on its London capital markets practice with the hire of two senior lawyers and eight junior associates.

The SEC last month received support for its plans to tackle concerns over analysts when the Bond Market Association (TBMA) gave its backing to proposals covering fixed income research.

After months of corporate scandals over accounting irregularities, international and US standards-setters have begun a process to harmonize their rules and create a single global standard by 2005.

More complex securitization structures have less chance of protecting investors from losses should the originator go bankrupt, a new survey reveals.

Some recent case law gives cause for concern regarding the tax deductibility in Belgium of expenses relating to put or call options on shares. This article will first briefly discuss the applicable principles and provisions as well as the case law. Subsequently, it will establish that the legal grounds of this case law are contestable and that it appears possible to circumvent this case law easily, so that expenses' relation to options on shares should still be tax deductible in Belgium. This article will not discuss the particular cases in which there can arise, in Belgium, such expenses with respect to options on shares.

The restructuring of Marconi is troubling the derivatives market. Those who have bought protection against the company are unsure whether its agreement with lenders counts as a credit event. Could banks find their credit swaps against other companies are similarly vague?

Japan has set the course for laws governing asset-backed finance. Taiwan and Korea aim to follow. By Tim Lester and Mohammed Asaria, of Lovells, and Udo van der Linden of ING

Marun Jazbik and Frederico Buosi of Allen & Overy report on how banks are using new structured deals to defy the jitters of Latin American markets and raise money

UK barrister Iain Sheridan explains how new online trading rules in Europe will affect the financial services industry