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As a reaction to China's accession to the World Trade Organization, new regulations have been introduced broadly classifying the projects in which foreign sponsors may or may not invest. The projects are listed in four categories: encouraged, permitted, restricted and prohibited. The new legislation appears in the Provisional Regulations for Guiding the Direction of Foreign Investment, and the Catalogue for Guiding Foreign Investment in Industries, effective from April 1 2002. These replace similar regulations dating from 1995 and 1997 respectively.

Securitization specialists are carefully considering an announcement by Eurostat that it intends to change the way it looks at sovereign debt securitizations when drawing up country balance sheets.

In response to recent international agreements, proposed changes to Australia's anti-money-laundering laws will mean increased penalties for non-compliance and a broader range of obligations concerning reporting, investigations, property-tracking and disclosure.

By Rob Mannix and Thomas Williams

Philip Gilligan of Lovells Hong Kong and Joe Bannister in London compare the challenges of recovering assets in China with the approach taken by the English courts

By Clare Davidson, New York

Dan Cunningham of Allen & Overy, New York, and Thomas Werlen, in London, call for innovation to drive the derivatives market forward

Frederic Rich of Sullivan & Cromwell in New York considers the key issues facing the project finance market over the coming years

Twenty years ago IFLR ran a story on the Argentine crisis. Now another rumbles on. Stephen Hoare speaks to some of the financial markets’ leading personalities about the people, deals and regulations that have shaped our world in between

The European Regulation on Insolvency means proceedings commenced in one member state must now be recognized across the EU. Jennifer Marshall of Allen & Overy looks at some of the variables between the insolvency regimes in different countries