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  • China’s entry to the WTO will open vast markets to foreign investors, including the telecoms sector. William Farris and Mitchell Stocks of Latham & Watkins, Hong Kong, China’s obligations under WTO membership
  • In July the Supreme People’s Court of China issued an explanation to help guide lower courts through the maze of domain name disputes. William Farris, Latham & Watkins Hong Kong, discusses the PRC’s progress
  • The Superintendency of Securities, the entity in charge of regulating the Colombian securities market, has issued Resolution 0275, dated May 23 2001, which constitutes an important breakthrough for the implementation of corporate governance standards in the Colombian corporate sector.
  • The New Economic Regulations Act (loi sur les Nouvelles Régulations Economique, or NRE), which came into force in May 2001, has introduced a wide range of provisions to strengthen the legislative framework in the fields of competition law, company law and banking law.
  • Ireland has followed the lead of other European jurisdictions by proposing covered bond legislation based upon the model of the German Pfandbriefe legislation. The Asset Covered Securities Bill is expected to be enacted into law in the last quarter of 2001.
  • Corporate governance rules play an important role for (institutional) investors and the good functioning of the stock markets. The main set of existing Belgian rules on corporate governance in the modern sense is to be found in voluntary codes of conduct, but today this is considered to be insufficient.
  • The issuance of a guidance note by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) in May 2001 clarifying regulatory requirements concerning online marketing and offering of Collective Investment Schemes (CIS) will help to regulate activities that are targeted at Hong Kong investors or are detrimental to the interests of the investing public or market integrity of Hong Kong.
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  • China’s membership of WTO may not be the answer to foreign law firms’ sluggish Asian practices. While 1.3 billion people represents an exciting potential, there is a long way to go before China proves capable of winning the full confidence of major-league investors. Nick Ferguson reports
  • Sullivan & Cromwell has moved one of its senior partners to Frankfurt in a bid to strengthen its financial institutions practice in Europe and expand its local team.