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  • The traditionally separate businesses of commercial banking, securities and insurance are increasingly merging. An overall approach to supervision is required. By Philip Wood and Paul Phillips of Allen & Overy, London
  • Quebec’s new Bill 181 amends the Civil Code to require registration of secured transactions. It has important implications for securitization. By Sterling Dietze of Stikeman, Elliott, Montreal
  • The demand for infrastructure improvement in South Africa exceeds the scope of the public sector. The opportunities for private sector finance are considerable. By Jabulani Mtshali of Deneys Reitz, Johannesburg
  • Emmanuel Guillaume, group executive vice president and general counsel at France Telecom, talks to Barbara Galli
  • As the securities market increasingly adopts the Internet, the SEC has issued guidelines to help foreign securities companies avoid US registration. By Winthrop Brown of Shaw Pittman Potts & Trowbridge, Washington DC
  • The 1992 Bankruptcy Law allowed Russian companies to continue to operate in an insolvent state. New legislation empowers the creditors. By Britt Shaw of McDermott, Will & Emery, Moscow
  • • US firm Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker is expanding its London office. Wayne McArdle, former chief counsel of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, has joined the firm as a partner. McArdle is a corporate finance specialist, with significant experience in project finance transactions in central and eastern Europe. Corporate partner and securities specialist Joel Simon is also relocating from New York to London, along with a corporate associate.
  • Can the resolution of future sovereign debt crises be eased by changes in the legal documents that evidence these obligations? In the first of a series of three articles, Lee C Buchheit of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York considers the sharing clause
  • On April 15 1998, the Chilean Central Bank amended certain exchange rules on the issue of Eurobonds and American depositary receipts (ADRs) to cut restrictions and increase flexibility.
  • The draft Directive on settlement finality, incorporating amendments proposed by the European parliament, was approved by the Council of Ministers at the end of April 1998. It provides for legislation to deal with the position of cross-border payments when a bank or securities firm cannot meet its obligations. It aims to cut the systemic risk in payment and securities settlement systems and to minimize the disruption to a system caused by insolvency proceedings against a participant in the system.