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The proposed initial public offering (IPO) of Chinese internet company Alibaba Group would be one of the year's biggest. But Hong Kong should not concede corporate governance principles to win the listing.

Despite doubts over how progressive the new Turkish Commercial Code will be, Duygu Turgut and Orçun Solak of Esin Attorney Partnership suggest it is still a step forward for the reemerging economy

Lighthouse had to account for a similar transformation of its underlying collateral BNP Paribas has used a master trust structure to complete the first securitisation backed by commodity trade loans. The $132 million deal known as Lighthouse is the latest example of alternative funding sources being applied to assets traditionally financed by banks.

Investigations of alleged oil price manipulation highlight the challenges of overseeing cross-border oil price benchmarks. Michael A Yuffee, Daniel A Mullen and J Peter Ripley of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson explain why

In the face of growing intellectual property concerns and disputes, Rui Filipe Oliveira and João Nuno Riquito of Riquito Advogados outline the case for compulsory arbitration in patent litigation in Macau

The market practice argument inevitably crops up in any M&A negotiation. But is it actually a useful standard?

A selective analysis of English and Luxembourg laws governing financial collateral arrangements shows how the quest for EU-wide common regime has fallen short

Financial services firms have much to gain from investment protections being discussed in the EU-US free trade negotiations

The lack of EU recognition of Islamic banks has contributed led to their lack of profitability. Here’s why

Oene Marseille Emir Nurmansyah Indonesia's Financial Services Authority (the OJK) has recently issued OJK regulation number: 2/POJK.04/2013 on share buybacks issued by issuers or public companies in significantly fluctuating market conditions (the Regulation). The Regulation came into effect on August 23 2013. The relaxation of regulations is supposedly part of the recent support package put in place to aid the downward pressure on the Indonesian currency and downward adjustment in the Indonesian stock market. The Regulation aims to reduce the impact of a significantly fluctuating market and the resulting pressure on the domestic stock exchange, by giving flexibility to the issuer or public company (the Company) to conduct share buybacks without having to violate the prevailing laws and regulations.