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By Bernd Volk, head of European covered bond research at Deutsche Bank, explains why new underlying assets mean covered bonds are firmly on banks' radar

Tender option bonds have been boosted by an innovative structure that takes advantage of securities law loopholes in the US

BBVA’s head of European credit research and covered bonds, and the bank’s senior covered bond analyst, discuss the evolution of covered bonds

Dieter Grünblatt, Stefan Kramer and Benedikt Maurenbrecher of Homburger explain Switzerland’s new clearing system for paperless mortgage certificates

Christine Van Gallebaert of Gide Loyrette Nouel presents the main features of the legal framework which governs French covered bonds issuers

Anna Pinedo and Jerry Marlatt of Morrison & Foerster examine the opportunity for US regulators to adopt a framework to encourage the issuance of covered bonds by US banks

Credit Foncier’s offering of €1 billion RMBS has been hailed as the deal that could reopen the French securitisation market

Investors may have been buoyed by a ruling that creates new liabilities for rating agencies. Herbert Smith Freehills' Harry Edwards explains why litigation in EU courts could have a very different outcome

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton's Richard Cooper, Adam Brenneman and Jessica McBride analyse the new statute and explain why lawmakers have not overcome their scepticism of in-court reorganisations

Randall Barquero On May 20 2014, Law 9246 – the Law on Guarantees on Movable Assets (Law)– was published in the official Costa Rican law gazette La Gaceta. In approving this type of law, Costa Rica joins various other countries in the region which seek to give better financing opportunities to businesses, particularly small and medium companies. The Law is based on the Inter-American Model Law on Guarantees on Movable Assets prepared by the Organization of American States. It will allow the constitution of guarantees over specific items of movable property, or a generic group of these, as well as on inventories, equipment, circulating assets, and account receivables. The Government of Costa Rica, as well as the country´s legal and business sectors, have high hopes that the law will stimulate and increase the access to credit for companies in the productive sector of the Costa Rican economy that otherwise could not provide suitable collateral for normal credit structures.