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  • The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) has introduced regulations permitting stock borrowing and lending (SBL). The Central Depositary System (CDS) facilitates SBL transactions and lenders and borrowers can engage in SBL only through an "eligible participant", being a member of the CSE or custodian bank, which meets with the criteria stipulated by the CDS.
  • The listing rules of the Hong Kong Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) were amended as of October 1 2001. Key revisions of note include the following:
  • The stink from the Enron scandal is so powerful that even the loosest connection to the disgraced energy company can cause trouble.
  • Jeffrey Wilson of Baker & McKenzie, Hong Kong, explores how China’s new insurance regime for foreign investors has failed to improve on the Shanghai Measures and may not meet WTO standards
  • Shearman & Sterling in Hong Kong has acted as US counsel to Aluminium Corporation of China (Chalco) and its state-run parent Aluminium Corporation of China (Chinalco) on Chalco's $458 million initial public offering (IPO).
  • With pressure mounting on offshore jurisdictions to tighten up their tax haven status and secrecy rules, lawyers are looking to adapt their legislative environments to encourage work in sophisticated cross-border transactions. Thomas Williams reports
  • Clifford Chance lawyers have closed the first fixed-line telecommunications securitization of the year.
  • France must clarify whether its usury laws apply to corporate bonds if its high-yield market is to develop, say Eric Cafritz and Delphine Caramalli of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in Paris
  • On December 5 2001 the Minister for Finance announced the final budget of the present government prior to the next general election, which is due to take place in the first half of 2002.
  • A recent precedent-setting court ruling that upheld the rights of minority shareholders may mark the first stir of change for the nation's companies, especially conglomerates, where board decisions were often made without regard for shareholders.