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  • Authorities in Shanghai are looking at developing rules for a corporate credit-rating system, according to local lawyers.
  • Financial institutions will soon have to adopt more transparent practices in the way they allocate shares to institutional and retail investors in primary offerings.
  • A revised Code of Banking Practice, applicable to relationships between individual customers and authorized institutions under the Banking Ordinance (AIs), became effective as of December 1 2001. AIs generally have six months to comply with its terms.
  • The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (Moftec) recently issued Interim Measures regarding Examination and Approval of Foreign Invested Leasing Companies (FILCs). Taking effect as of September 1 2001, the Measures contain a framework for foreign investors to form equity or cooperative sino-foreign JV leasing companies.
  • Bankers in over 15 countries fear domestic and international regulation is a growing threat to their business, according to an industry survey published in February. The rulemaking of national regulators such as the UK's Financial Services Authority, and efforts to introduce global measures such as the Basle II capital accord, now rank as top-10 threats to the banking world, the survey suggests.
  • US lawyers have given a cautious welcome to the US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) plans to radically reform corporate disclosure rules in the wake of the Enron affair.
  • Freehills is pushing ahead with plans to expand its Vietnamese focus after hiring the former head of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's Ho Chi Minh City office.
  • The European Commission may have published a report on the need for an EU takeover directive and company law, but Germany is just getting used to its own new takeover rules. Daniela Weber-Rey and Wolfgang Richter of Clifford Chance Pünder, Frankfurt, examine what the regime means for companies while the European debate rumbles on
  • Under Law No19,601 enacted on January 18 1999, a public offering of offshore securities or securities deposit receipts (SDRs) can only take place in Chile if they have been previously registered in the Special Registry of Offshore Securities (ROS) kept by the Superintendency of Securities and Insurance (the SVS).
  • The sharp contraction in US consumer spending has had a nasty knock-on effect in developing economies, leaving many companies needing to restructure their debt to survive. Neil Whoriskey of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Hong Kong, gives an invaluable guide to successful restructuring and avoiding the many pitfalls it poses to companies