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  • Twenty-four of the most prominent law firms in the US have united to issue a consensus view on the proper application of Section 402 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which bans companies from giving directors and executive officers personal loans.
  • Regulators from around the US are queuing up to condemn investment banks for their use of analysts and allocation of shares in lucrative offerings. Ben Maiden reports from New York on the battle over Wall Street
  • When Merrill Lynch fell foul of US securities laws during China Telecom's initial public offering, the bank's actions highlighted industry-wide cracks in internal compliance. By Andrew Crooke
  • In the second of two articles, Tim Lester, Mohammed Asaria and Udo van der Linden consider the future for asset-backed finance in Korea and Taiwan as both countries strive to learn from the progress of neighbouring Japan
  • Regulators in South Korea have introduced rules intended to swell the flow of corporate information to shareholders. Yet the new regime could have precisely the opposite effect, say Woong-Soon Song and Sang Man Kim
  • Australian banks have less than a year to comply with the country’s new code of practice. Ros Grady reports
  • In 1998, the Federal Banking Commission (FBC) issued a circular to all banks setting out guidelines relating to money laundering. The FBC now plans to issue more formal and stringent legislation in the form of an Ordinance on the subject. A draft of the Ordinance prepared by a committee was sent for comment to various business organizations of the banking trade at the beginning of July.
  • Amendments to the Hungarian Labour Code, effective from September 1 2002, appear to favour employees' interests over those of employers.
  • German companies listed in the US will find it tough to reconcile differences between their traditional practices and the requirements of American corporate governance reforms. By John Palenberg, Ward Greenberg and Gabriele Apfelbacher
  • Trade financiers have traditionally assumed they will be treated more favourably than other creditors by countries in financial difficulty. According to a study carried out by Torys, this is no-longer true. By Gilbert Samberg