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The lack of a coherent English law doctrine of lenders’ liability means US investors need to take care

Some innovative reforms have created new possibilities – and flexibility – for Italian companies in distress

Asia’s debt capital markets have long lived in the shadow of the region’s buoyant listing markets. Not for much longer

HK’s new sponsor rules could lock up funding as well as sponsors That Hong Kong wants to protect the reputations of its H-share and A-share companies is understandable – particularly following the issues that have troubled US-listed ChinaCos. But while listing location is rarely chosen on the basis of a regulator's vetting process, Hong Kong's new sponsor regulations may have made initial public offerings (IPOs) prohibitively expensive. Hong Kong's sponsor regulations have left small firms with few options. The rules might have noble underpinnings, but their provisions are heavy-handed. The risk sponsors take means that we are likely to see far fewer small IPOs getting done in Hong Kong.

This year, clearing houses will look to comingle options contracts in an attempt to use margin offsets to lower Dodd-Frank compliance costs – for themselves and swaps traders

If the pessimists are to be believed, modern science has failed us. Yes, it has delivered smartphones and supercomputers, but according to a growing band of US academics and economists, that's not quite good enough. Seemingly, until our generation produces something as useful, and transformative, as modern sanitation or transportation, we have an innovation problem. And the implications of that are massive.

Money market mutual funds (MMFs), while benefiting from quality and liquidity floors implemented in 2011, remain a source of vulnerability for the US economy. The Financial Stability Oversight Counsel (Fsoc) should see that fund managers hold enough capital in the event of another meltdown.

After flooding regulators with comment letters, the market was hoping for a more flexible Volcker Rule. All indications suggest that will not be the case

The US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) 'Annual Report on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program: Fiscal Year 2012' reveals a programme that is still grappling with many difficulties, lawyers have said.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision released its revised Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) requirements on January 6. It included some significant changes, which were to be expected given that its original December 2009 initial framework document was the first time that an internationally applicable, quantitative regulatory requirement for liquidity had been proposed.