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What will stop swap counterparties hitting this? Inserting new clauses into derivatives contracts could be the final piece of the solution to the too-big-to-fail conundrum that has vexed regulators since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. The industry group for the $700 trillion global swaps market, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), is revising international protocols to impose a temporary pause that would prevent counterparties from terminating swap trades with a failing bank for up to 48 hours.

TPG’s acquisition of up to 75% of Union Bank of Colombo is Sri Lanka’s biggest private equity deal. It also signals increasing interest in the south Asian country

Proposed changes that empower minority shareholders could have unintended side effects. Ogonna Chinedu-Eze, Ozofu Ogiemudia and Folake Elias-Adebowale of Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie explain why

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

Limited recourse provisions don’t preclude an issuer from becoming insolvent. Slaughter and May's Sanjev Warna-Kula-Suriya and Eric Phillips analyse whether this is this a concern

Vote now on IFLR's Quick Poll, to be published in the October magazine

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

Nominations for the in-house shortlists for the Middle East Awards 2014 have been revealed

Despite regulators’ aim to expand the number of dealers in the country's derivatives trading market, the top five banks remain the biggest players

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