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  • The Republic of Italy is offering $2.1 billion of government bonds exchangeable for shares or American Depositary Shares in the state owned insurance company Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni (INA). It is the first time a European government has used exchangeable securities to privatize government assets. The offering is structured as $1.06 billion of 5% Privitization Exchangeable Notes (PENs) and L1,630 billion ($1.06 billion) of 6.5% PENs.
  • Johan Tyteca, head of the legal department at Kredietbank, talks to Diana Bentley
  • IBA 26th Biennial Conference
  • John Worthy and Duncan Calow of Denton Hall, London, examine the implications of digital technologies for the regulation of banking and financial services in the UK
  • The Mémorial, the official journal of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, in its edition dated May 29 1996, published the law of May 9 1996 on netting of claims in the financial sector (loi du 9 mai 1996 relative à la compensation de créances dans le secteur financier, portant modification de la loi modifiée du 5 avril 1993 relative au secteur financier).
  • The implementation of the EU Directive on investment services has been the ideal opportunity to reform Italy's securities regime. By Susanna Beltramo and Sabrina Bruno of Studio Legale Beltramo, Rome
  • US venture capital firm Forstmann Little has acquired Tennessee hospital management company Community Health Systems in a $1.4 billion transaction.
  • Beginning in October 1996, the electronic filing of securities documentation will become mandatory in Canada. Marguerite Mooney of Borden & Elliot, Toronto, reports on how market participants will benefit
  • Australia's third largest firm, Freehill Hollingdale & Page, has announced the closure of its London office from August 31. Resident partner Kevin Lewis says: "Australia is getting smaller and smaller vis-à-vis the rest of the world. Investors prefer newer markets such as South America or South-East Asia, where they get higher returns."
  • As an alternative to bankruptcy, a Swedish business in financial trouble can enter into a composition (ackord) with its creditors. While seeking a composition, the debtor has nevertheless had no protection against its creditors. To solve this problem, new legislation (the Business Reconstruction Act, SFS 1996:764) has been enacted, effective from September 1 1996.