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Investors that own a quantity of stock below its index weight may a pose greater and more immediate threat to companies than growing activism or short sellers, one of the OECD's independent advisers has warned. Underweight shareholders, as they are known, may own a large voting stake in a company like activists, but like a short seller they are hoping for a fall in the stock's value. This, in turn, allows them to raise their performance against a benchmark.

RBI has, once again, changed its mind on temporary write-downs The Reserve Bank of India (RBI)'s amendments to its Basel III guidelines buck global trends on write-downs and on retail investors participating in the regulatory capital market. The amendments, notified on September 1, included several surprising elements. They reintroduce temporary write-downs to the market – after a previous notification said that they would no longer be permitted – and now permit retail investors to buy Basel III-compliant bonds.

There’s just not enough to satisfy regulators

The financing of a biomass facility in Scotland has paved the way for greenfield renewable projects to tap the UK capital markets.

The nominations for this year's Asia Wibl awards have been announced

Boards may get more power to thwart takeover bids if a proposal by the country’s securities administrator is adopted next year. Notice of the proposal was released on September 11, with the full version expected in early 2015

This October marks the one-year anniversary of the city-state’s sweeping sponsor regulations. Slaughter and May's John Moore assesses how the they’ve changed the market

Many have touted collective action clauses as the answer to future sovereign debt restructures. But Bazinas Law Firm's George Bazinas and Yiannis Sakkas believe that more fundamental legal doctrines offer a better solution

The recent changes are broadly positive. But Borja Garci´a-Alama´n and José María Gil-Robles explain why they don’t mark the end of the journey

After a few quiet years, the market is ramping up for a period of growth. Shearman & Sterling's Marwan Elaraby, James Comyn and Amine Assouad explain the local idiosyncrasies that have caused the sector to develop on its own trajectory