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Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty last week announced a plan to create a new national securities regulator

Six years after the financial crisis, one of Europe’s top regulators has called for consumer protection measures to be moved up the reform agenda

Regulators need to use behavioural economics to help them understand market forces, and determine how to formulate more effective regulation, according to Australian Securities and Investment Commission's chairman

Despite a series of recent setbacks, the balance of power is shifting east, in favour of emerging markets

As the global leader in Islamic finance, Malaysia’s strategy for developing its capital markets offers a valuable case study for securities regulators in other high growth markets

Korea’s Financial Services Commission recent launch of a stock exchange for small and medium sized enterprises could show European policy-makers how to return the EU to growth

A guide to the 20 bank teams at the forefront of legal innovation

The region’s market watchdogs are beefing up their surveillance and enforcement activities. Here are the latest statistics and strategies

Alexei Bonamin Marcus Vinicius Fonseca On September 5 2013, the Brazilian National Monetary Council enacted Resolution 4,263, which finally regulated structured operations certificates (certificado de operações estruturadas) or COEs. Similar to a structured note, COEs are already used by banks in other countries, which allows the combination of different investment structures, such as fixed-income and variable-income, in one instrument. The COE was created in 2010 together with financial bills (letras financeiras) by the Provisional Measure (Medida Provisória) of December 15 2009, (converted into Law 12,249 of June 11 2010), to be a fundraising alternative for banks established in Brazil.

Felipe Cuberos of Prietocarrizosa analyses the development of bankruptcy and restructuring laws in Colombia