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Rodrigo Nascimbeni of Pinheiro Neto - Advogados reviews the new rules and prospects for the BDR market

In the second part of their review of Canada’s new financial legislation, Robert McDowell and Robert Elliott of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin, Toronto, look at how the law will affect foreign banks seeking to open branches or run operations in Canada

The interaction between the internet and world stock markets is easily seen in the fortunes made (and lost) from volatile dot.com shares. But as Nancy Leigh of Baker & McKenzie, Hong Kong, explains, the net is also helping reshape the structure of the securities industry

Markus Affentranger of Baker & McKenzie, Zurich, looks at the regulations governing Swiss export risk guarantees and examines the coverage they can offer to international project financings

In the past, registered shares have only been issued by a very limited number of German stock corporations. Instead, the vast majority of listed companies in Germany used to issue bearer shares. It was only in 1998/99 that the issuance of registered shares began in earnest, when modern information technology enabled the central Germany clearing house, Clearstream Banking, to overcome difficulties in handling registered shares. Since then, a number of big DAX-listed corporations have changed from issuing bearer shares to registered shares. In doing so they intend to get a better picture of their shareholders, improve their investor relationships and obtain an acquisition currency for takeovers of US companies by directly listing the shares on US stock markets without having to implement an American depositary receipt program.

Loeff Claeys to advise on Belgian telecoms auction

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Law firms in Germany are rubbing their hands at the prospect of the London and Frankfurt iX merger, and many have been limbering up over the last six months with a host of landmark deals. Rufus Jones reports from Frankfurt

US financial institutions fear they will be exposed to more lawsuits following the adoption of new disclosure rules by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Although the privatization process began in Turkey in the early 1980s, it has accelerated recently as a result of the IMF and World Bank-sponsored economic reform program. Within the framework of this program, a decree (the decree) was enacted in July to start the privatization of Türkiye Vakiflar Bankasi (Vakif Bank). This privatization is the first step in what is expected to be a radical restructuring of the public banks in Turkey.