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  • The Finnish Council of State has recently published a bill to implement the EU Directive on company law into the Finnish Companies Act. The bill also contains several amendments that fulfil specific Finnish concerns.
  • Anne Crossfield* looks at the controversy surrounding the involvement of local government and municipalities in high-risk investments sparked off by the Hammersmith & Fulham and Orange County cases and concludes that in the US only further legislation is likely to resolve it
  • The consolidation of Russia's securities regime, and the added teeth given to the regulatory authority, can only benefit the market. By James Christiansen of Coudert Brothers, Moscow
  • The Republic of Italy is offering $2.1 billion of government bonds exchangeable for shares or American Depositary Shares in the state owned insurance company Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni (INA). It is the first time a European government has used exchangeable securities to privatize government assets. The offering is structured as $1.06 billion of 5% Privitization Exchangeable Notes (PENs) and L1,630 billion ($1.06 billion) of 6.5% PENs.
  • IBA 26th Biennial Conference
  • Johan Tyteca, head of the legal department at Kredietbank, talks to Diana Bentley
  • John Worthy and Duncan Calow of Denton Hall, London, examine the implications of digital technologies for the regulation of banking and financial services in the UK
  • US financial regulators have given a cautious welcome to certain uses of new technology. However, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) still insists that existing regulation must be followed. Anne-Louise Childs reports
  • Dutch firm Nauta Dutilh has opened a office in London. Resident partner Diederik van Wassenaer has moved from the New York office to head the practice assisted by two Dutch associates. "In New York I did mainly banking and structured and corporate finance," says Van Wassenaer. "Here I will do the same with more reorganizations and mergers and acquisitions."
  • Consistent with the aim of promoting finance market stability and the free movement of capital, the Commission has proposed a Directive (based on Article 100A of the EC Treaty) targeting 'systemic risk' in payment systems. The risk of one link in the chain of a payment system failing to meet its liabilities and passing disastrous consequences on to other participants will be reduced by the new rules on settlement finality and collateral security.