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  • Bankers Trust, the US's seventh-largest bank, is to buy the country's oldest investment bank, Alex. Brown. The US$1.6 billion stock swap acquisition marks the latest erosion of the US's Glass-Steagall legislation separating commercial and investment banks.
  • ‘Rogue’ traders are an inevitable price paid by the markets for their cultivation of immature and selfish behaviour. By Eric C Bettelheim of Mayer, Brown & Platt, London
  • Act No 95-277 of March 25 1997 gives French employees the statutory right to participate in private pension fund schemes. By Bernard Carrez of Siméon & Associés, Paris
  • International commercial arbitration in China and Hong Kong after July 1997 remains an area of law full of uncertainties. Simon G Zinger of Graham & James LLP, San Francisco, looks at the options for parties to disputes
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  • Hitherto neglected areas of Islamic commercial law can be used to create an Islamic structure for project finance deals. By Mansoor H Khan of Khan & Associates, Lahore, Pakistan
  • Legislative reform of the German financial markets continues with the publication in April of the long-awaited draft of the Third Financial Markets Promotion Act. The bill is expected to come into force on January 1 1998.
  • The new law on pledges in Poland should give project finance and other asset-backed lenders the protection they have lacked in the past. By Tomasz Dabrowski and George Macdonald of Salans Hertzfeld & Heilbronn, Warsaw and London
  • US government bonds are at last being integrated with other major government bonds and Eurobonds into the international clearing system. By Kathleen Tyson-Quah of KTQ Consulting, London, and Seth Weinberger of Mayer Brown & Platt, Chicago
  • The Basle Committee’s Tier 3 capital rules enable banks to hold capital against market risks. Here is how US banks can take advantage. By Edward G Eisert, Isaac B Lustgarten and Lynn S Kaplan, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, New York