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The Japanese government is calling for new securitization laws that will encourage banks to offer cheaper mortgages to low earners. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has submitted a plan to the Diet to amend the Housing Loan Corporation Law, changing the Corporation's role to that of a clearing-house for residential property securitization.

Two years ago the Nordic region was riding high on the technology wave but the capital markets have crashed and the region’s tech-heavy stock exchanges have suffered more than most. By Stephen Hoare

Davis Polk and Hengeler advise banks on Rentenbank offering Davis Polk & Wardwell and Hengeler Mueller have advised Merrill Lynch, Pierce Fenner & Smith, BNP Paribas Securities and UBS as lead managers of a $1.25 billion offering of 4.875% notes by Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank due 2007.

Investment banks are preparing for tighter regulation of the activities of analysts after financial watchdogs on both sides of the Atlantic moved to boost investors' confidence in the impartiality of banks' advice. Mounting concern in Europe and the US about researchers advising clients to buy stocks only because investment banking colleagues stand to win business from the companies in question has led regulators in Germany and France to issue new rules governing the conduct of stock-rating specialists.

Recent developments in the supervision of collective investment institutions By Peter R Leenders and Maarten E J Verrest of Steins Bisschop Meijburg & Co, Amsterdam

Bart P M Joosen (partner) is admitted to the Amsterdam Bar and has previously worked with Tilburg University as assistant professor corporate law, Philips Electronics as in-house counsel corporate legal department and in the Banking & Securities Law Groups of Wouters Advocaten, an associated law firm of Arthur Andersen and of Coopers and Lybrand, Legal Services. Bart Joosen has specific experience and expertise in regulatory matters for participants in the financial industry, particularly banks and insurance companies with a focus on funding of financial industry institutions capital adequacy and solvency ratio and risk management issues from a legal perspective. Furthermore Bart Joosen has built up experience and expertise in structured finance, securitisation and securities law matters. Bart Joosen frequently publishes on matters of banking and securities law and on international insolvency law. He joined Steins Bisschop Meijburg Advocaten en Notarissen & Co in 1998.

Dr Andres Baumgartner of Dietrich, Baumgartner & Partners

The Dutch tax system By Ate van IJlzinga Veenstra and Frank de Vos of Clifford Chance, Amsterdam

By Dr Richard Meier, director international and research, SWX Swiss Exchange

By Simonetta Andrioli and Anna Pazzi of Zini & Associates, Milan