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  • On December 15 2000, Poland's parliament adopted the law on the Protection of Competition and Consumers Act (Journal of Laws No 122, item 1319), which came into force as of April 1 2001.
  • Effective April 19 2001, the Central Bank of Chile decided to remove the restrictions imposed on foreign exchange transactions. To many economists this decision represents the last step of a gradual deregulation process started by the Central Bank in 1998.
  • Worldwide, competition policy has established itself as a major instrument of economic policy and regulation. In September 1999, the Competition Act (the Act) came into operation in South Africa. However, since it came fully into effect, practice has revealed a need for review. As a result, the legislature recently enacted the Competition Second Amendment Act 2000 (the Amendment Act), which came into effect on February 1 2001.
  • The Prudential Insurance Company of America, the second biggest life insurer in the US, is set to raise $3.9 billion later this year in an initial public offering (IPO) when it demutualizes.
  • "A cocktail of Kafkaesque inefficiency"
  • The long-awaited amendments to the provisions of Canada's provincial securities legislation governing takeover and issuer bids (sometimes referred to as the Zimmerman amendments) took effect on March 31 2001. The amendments apply to each Canadian province that has securities legislation governing takeover and issuer bids, other than Québec, where the securities regulators are awaiting legislative approvals required to implement the amendments.
  • Robert Palache, the former managing partner of Clifford Chance's finance practice, has resigned from his position as co-head of securitization at Nomura International. It is unknown where he will move next.
  • Howard Davies Howard Davies, chairman of the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA), warned in April that his fellow European regulators must take action if European banks are to benefit from the new Basle Capital Accord in 2004. Speaking at a conference on the accord in London, Davies urged Europe to make faster progress towards implementing the necessary legislation if it is to be able to start using the accord at the same time as the US and other non-Europeans.
  • A year ago Nordic law firms were reaping the benefits of booming capital markets work for high-tech companies. The collapse in equity values may have frozen the flow of deals but, as Thomas Williams reports, lawyers are finding they can help clients in bad times as well as good
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