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A council established to advise the government of the Philippines and chaired by the country's president, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, has pledged to apply five key pieces of legislation to reform the financial services industry.

The stink from the Enron scandal is so powerful that even the loosest connection to the disgraced energy company can cause trouble.

Allen & Overy has appointed Jacques Cook, senior counsel at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), to strengthen its project finance capabilities in the region.

Entry to the WTO should give foreign banks access to the renminbi business they need if they are to be part of the expected boom in the country’s banking sector. But, as so often in China, things may not be so simple. Mitch Dudek and Kan Liang of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue’s Shanghai office explain

The ever-growing popularity of football is forcing clubs to expand their grounds to meet the demands of fans and to be able to afford players’ wages and transfer fees. With the equity markets turning their backs, clubs are turning to securitization to fund their expansion. Stuart Brinkworth of Latham & Watkins, London, explains how

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

IRELAND, UK, BERMUDA: Euro 1 billion ($883 million) leveraged credit portfolio for Blue Chip Funding 2001-1 (January 2002) Dolem Securities McCann Fitzgerald

On January 1 2002 several amendments to the Securities Market Act (the SMA) and a number of related securities laws became effective. The amendments relate mainly to the definition of securities under Finnish law and introduce new provisions concerning other forms of public trading as well as alternative professional trading places to be established by authorized stock exchanges, investment firms and credit institutions. In addition, the amendments introduce provisions intended to increase the level of internal supervision conducted by market participants involved in the Finnish securities markets.

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).

Allen & Gledhill has advised the Development Bank of Singapore (DBS) on the bank's first synthetic securitization, backed by a $2.8 billion corporate loan portfolio.