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  • Brighter days ahead for the world’s former financial pariah Argentina returned to international capital markets in late April, issuing $16.5 billion in bonds. Local and US counsel are cautiously optimistic, seeing both opportunity and challenges ahead.
  • In previous decades, economic policymakers were either coxswains or rowers. In the case of the former, they'd sit at the back, keeping an eye on where the team is heading. The latter simply row with strength.
  • The cross-pollination of asset classes is, by now, old hat. Bonds adopt equity characteristics, there are triple recourse residential-mortgage backed securities, and with structured products it seems the only limit is your imagination. But while such tinkering – albeit more prudentially and closely scrutinised since the crisis – is fair game for most securities, there is one glaring exception.
  • Since China secured its special drawing rights status last December, the Xi administration has set its sights on another international accolade to boost its ever-growing stature – recognition by MSCI.
  • Bob Penn A new boutique was launched in Austria in May. Specialising in financial and corporate work, real estate and disputes, A20 was established by Marie-Agnes Arlt, Martin Oppitz, and Hermann Ortner. The former two joined from Grohs Hofer, and the latter moved from Kunz Schima Wallentin (KSW). All three founders were partners at their previous firms.
  • The idyllic Mediterranean island is modernising financially
  • The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) has dropped a proposed rule requiring banks to hold extra capital against the risk of rising interest rates. As a result, the Committee has been reported as both softening and hardening its line on interest rate risk (IRR).
  • The current economic downturn has caused many Brazilian companies to file for judicial reorganisation in local courts (a procedure similar to Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code)
  • Cyprus has now enacted all the new laws required to align its legislative framework with the 2014 EU Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD) and the 2014 Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive
  • A recent English court ruling serves important lessons for how to draft junior creditor rights regarding the miscalculation of interest due