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The US Federal Reserve (Fed) and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) guidelines on limiting leverage have sparked debate about the extent to which they will impact Europe.

Putnam County Savings Bank took the unusual step last month of purchasing a Nasdaq-listed competitor in an effort to protect its core business and meet growing regulatory demand.

A capital markets union is regulators’ latest attempt to diversify corporates’ funding sources. But what should the concept actually entail?

The exclusivity guidance for Hong Kong has left market participants hanging

Cleary Gottlieb's Andrew Shutter and Sui-Jim Ho explain how lawyers and lawmakers are finding new ways to make debt instruments subject to majority rule

Major banks have signed an Isda stay protocol to assist the orderly resolution of a troubled financial institution. Jay Taylor of Taylor Louis asks how far this goes in addressing too-big-to-fail

Joseph Kim, Hogan Lovells BINGHAM MCCUTCHEN may have lost 25 partners globally over the past few weeks, but its Hong Kong office benefited from the arrival of corporate partners Matthew Puhar and Charles Rogers. KIRKLAND & ELLIS's Hong Kong practice also strengthened its Asia corporate practice by bringing in Ropes & Gray private equity expert Gary Li. DLA Piper in Singapore lost capital markets expert and India head Biswajit Chatterjee to SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS, a week after the firm saw the exit of Asia head Bob Charlton to BERWIN LEIGHTON PAISNER in Hong Kong as its new head of Asia and managing partner.

Supattra Sathapornnanon Thai law governing surety and mortgages is found in the Civil and Commercial Code (CCC) and has been relatively stable over the years. Amendments were passed by the National Legislative Assembly on October 2 2014, which in due course will be enacted into law. The amendments were made to provide better protection and fairness to a surety and mortgagor who are not principal debtors.

The European high-yield market continues to spread. But new issuers mean new problems

Recent judicial decisions have revived concerns around the enforceability of English contracts in Indonesia. Ashurst's Joel Hogarth explains how to protect yourself