International Financial Law Review

Issue: XXII, 2

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Features - International

• Isda sets new standard for derivatives John Berry explains how Isda's 2002 master agreement improves on its 10-year-old predecessor  19 - 22
  Berry, John

Cover Story

• Why Wall Street settlements cast a shadow over analysts Where is the money to be made in producing independent research if investment bankers can't pay for it?  15 - 17
  Lofchie, Steven

Features - Asia

• Hong Kong blocks offshore financial marketing Foreign banks must register or forget about selling their products to Hong Kong investors  27 - 28
  Wong, Jill

Client Update: Benelux

• How the Dutch shut the door on foreign issuers… …and spooked the securitization market Michael Evans reports on an amendment to banking law that Dutch lawmakers are now scrambling to undo  39 - 40
  Evans, Michael

Features - International

• Rights offerings: why US shareholders are not always welcome Are US investors more trouble than they are worth?  37 - 38
  Qureshi, Ashar

News

• - SEC completes busiest month - US listing burden partly-blamed for Chinese IPO withdrawal - Korean bond overcomes privatization risk - Firms close part one of London Underground PPP  6 - 9
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Client Update: Benelux

• Belgium modernizes financial regulation  41 - 43
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News Focus

• Astra restructuring leaves bondholder voting mechanisms under review SEC politicizes proxy voting  3 - 5
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Features - Asia

• Insolvency: Asia's false sense of security Lessons that should have been learnt after Asia's financial crisis have gone unheeded  33 - 35
  Vassiliou, Lampros
  Zafft, Robert

International Briefings

• Cayman Islands - Corporate integrity in structured financial transactions China - Approval of foreign-invested enterprises strengthened Hong Kong - Securities and futures ordinance to commence India - Competition Act 2001  45 - 52
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Features - Asia

• Making tier I work in Asia Sanghoon Lee on the latest rules governing regulatory capital structures in the region  29 - 32
  Lee, Sanghoon

• How Grapes exported Chapter 11 prepackaged restructuring US debtor protection could now be available even to companies with few assets in the country  13 - 14
  Garrity, James
  Bosco, Michael
  Spevak, Stacey
  Bartner, Douglas

Features - International

• What Basel II means for specialized lending Nicholas Budd investigates how capital adequacy proposals will affect financing for projects, assets and commodities  23 - 26
  Budd, Nicholas

Client Update: Benelux

• Q&A: Jaap Winter on corporate governance  42 - 43
  Winter, Jaap