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Investors that own a quantity of stock below its index weight may a pose greater and more immediate threat to companies than growing activism or short sellers, one of the OECD's independent advisers has warned. Underweight shareholders, as they are known, may own a large voting stake in a company like activists, but like a short seller they are hoping for a fall in the stock's value. This, in turn, allows them to raise their performance against a benchmark.

There’s just not enough to satisfy regulators

The financing of a biomass facility in Scotland has paved the way for greenfield renewable projects to tap the UK capital markets.

Boards may get more power to thwart takeover bids if a proposal by the country’s securities administrator is adopted next year. Notice of the proposal was released on September 11, with the full version expected in early 2015

The region's new and established authorities are redoubling their efforts. Linklaters' Clara Ingen-Housz and Fay Zhou explain how to manage the risk of increased enforcement

It wasn't supposed to take this long. Hong Kong's renminbi (RMB) bond market was purportedly born back in July 2007 when the China Development Bank (CDB) issued 5 billion yuan worth of renminbi-denominated bonds. At the time, this correspondent had just moved to Hong Kong and was covering the Asian market for IFLR. Back then, the mood in China was more expectant than hopeful: bankers and their counsel were confident that CDB's bonds would lead to many more. They anticipated full internationalisation of the currency within two to three years.

Do any more US politicians want to blame companies for the country’s inversion issues? It is rare that a piece of corporate accounting and tax planning should be the topic of wide public discourse. But the number of US tax inversion deals launched over the past year has sparked both the public's and politicians' interest. This has been further heightened by the involvement of several household names in these types of deals. Pfizer, Burger King, and Walgreens (which eventually decided against a tax inversion despite a merger with British company Alliance Boots).

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong's highly-anticipated concept paper on weighted voting rights furthers the market's debate on non-traditional shareholding structures.

The possibility that Scotland could have voted to leave the UK raised many difficult questions, not least of which was a constitutional crisis in the UK. But the ripple effects of a split would have spread throughout the EU.

The Republic of Indonesia structured its recent sukuk to permit greater flexibility in its underlying assets. Other sovereigns are expected to follow.