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  • Europe's statistical body is the latest group to show its suspicion of structured finance, setting rules that treat sovereign securitizations differently from other types of state- guaranteed deals. Yannis Manuelides of Allen & Overy explains why Eurostat is wrong
  • In the wake of the Enron crisis, the Federal Banking Commission has toughened its stand on energy trading and energy traders. In particular, Swiss firms which intend to participate at the new European Energy Exchange (EEX) in Leipzig, may do so only if they have received a broker/dealer licence from the Federal Banking Commission.
  • Brazil is talking tough despite the problems of nearby Argentina. Ben Maiden finds out why local lawyers are sure recent reforms mean their nation will not suffer the same difficulties
  • New rules that open China's fund management and securities industries to foreign investment do not remove all barriers to overseas banks. Nicholas Howson and Lester Ross of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison report
  • In a month that saw the UK's FTSE 100 index fall to its lowest levels since 1997, Great Universal Stores' public sale of a 22.5% stake in clothing company Burberry was a welcome distraction for capital markets teams at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters.
  • Peugeot has closed a complex €1.5 billion ($1.49 billion) securitization of French and Spanish car loans using a Dutch special purpose vehicle (SPV), the biggest European car deal yet, involving three jurisdictions.
  • "Morgan Stanley is not going to take a big position if the market could move against it, and the market surely would"
  • The International Primary Markets Association (IPMA) has warned that the EU's plans for greater transparency in its capital markets will encourage companies to list elsewhere. In a letter to the European Commission the association, which represents the views of over 60 international banks operating in the European capital markets, says that "third-country issuers will be driven from EU markets" if the obligations of the new directive are disproportionately burdensome.
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