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Banks are taking advantage of an exemption to the Volcker rule to make investments through Small Business Investment Companies

Although the city-state is vying to become Asia’s financial hub, its bank regulations show a bias in favour of local depositors

Activism and engagement have long outlived the shareholder spring of 2012. Skadden's Scott Hopkins and Lorenzo Corte explain why UK boards must prepare to become more responsive

Thomas Sando One of the changes to the Norwegian Competition Act (the Act) that entered into force on January 1 2014 was the amendments to the leniency scheme available for cartel participants considering blowing the whistle to the Norwegian Competition Authority (the NCA). Under the previous scheme, the conditions for obtaining leniency were hidden in the Leniency Regulation. From January 1, the conditions are included in the new sections 30 and 31 of the Act, dealing with complete and partial leniency respectively. Besides the relocation of the conditions for obtaining leniency, the amended scheme introduces a marker system in line with the system in the EU. This is an improvement, as it will be possible for leniency applicants to initially bring only limited information, yet receive leniency rights from the time of the initial application.

As the debt saga continues, attention has turned to its ramifications for future bond offerings and restructures

Private equity has driven the continent's leveraged finance market. But as explained by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's Daniel French, US investors will be crucial to its further growth

BA-HR's Richard Sjøqvist analyses the rapid expansion of Norway’s high-yield market, which is paving the way for a single Nordic capital market

A flurry of auto asset-backed securitisation deals has sparked renewed enthusiasm for structured finance in the jurisdiction

The country's corporates are increasingly active in the US high-yield market because their home market has no equivalent

Nigeria has become the first African country to issue local bonds in the form of global depository notes. The deal is set to spark further deals from the region