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  • Editorial: Africa’s fightback
    A frican governments, long the targets of institutional investors, development funds and corporates hungry for a piece of their growth story, are fighting back. From Kenya to Nigeria, Ghana to Mozambique, state departments are reversing the procurement process. Foreign counsel should take note.
    May 20 2015
  • Europe: A little initiative
    As Europe's financial regulatory onslaught approaches its end, attention is turning to market inefficiencies that have fallen by the wayside. These are the issues that receive very little press. Often because they are not contentious, and contrary to the post-crisis anti-regulator mindset, market overseers are not to blame.
    May 20 2015
  • Asia Pacific: Paying for secrecy
    China's interpretation of some international conventions as well as its broad state secrecy laws and regulations have constructed a type of firewall around its financial institutions. This has, essentially, rendered them nearly immune from the jurisdiction of other countries' courts and regulatory agencies. That may have short-term benefits – namely avoiding litigation in the US – but could ultimately harm their integration into the global financial system.
    May 20 2015
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    Americas: Moving on, slowly
    Last month's ruling in the Federal House Finance Authority's (FHFA) case against Nomura and RBS may mark the beginning of closure for the residential-mortgage backed securities (RMBS) market, after the beating it has taken following the financial crisis. The blows to RMBS were both physical to its value, and emotional to its reputation.
    May 20 2015
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    Credit enhancements dominate Chinese bonds
    Keepwells are just like love letters, apparently Chinese corporate issuers are now able to guarantee their bonds, but investors have said that regulatory restraints mean support mechanisms remain popular.
    Ashley Lee, May 20 2015
  • Regulators highlight HFT risks
    A collection of senior central bank officials and regulators have issued a report warning of the evolving risks surrounding algorithmic trading.
    May 20 2015
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    Cyprus: New insolvency laws
    On April 18 2015, the Cyprus parliament approved a new package of insolvency laws, aimed at streamlining and modernising the existing system and promoting a rescue culture
    May 20 2015
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    Bankers’ Counsel Poll: Volcker Rule compliance
    The Volcker rule is coming. European and North American bank counsel speak anonymously – and candidly – about how they plan to comply with its covered fund provisions
    Danielle Myles, May 20 2015
  • Europe's resurgence of hybrid securities
    Last year saw hybrids come back with a bang. Cleary Gottlieb's Sui-Jim Ho looks at whether investors are cognisant of the risks and tradeoffs
    May 20 2015
  • Public disclosure for private securitisations?
    Mayer Brown's Richard Todd explains why European reforms aimed at improving securitisation transparency could impose unnecessary disclosure requirements on non-public and bilateral transactions
    May 20 2015
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