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Vincent Cooper of BlueMountain Capital provides a buyside perspective on the most attractive Basel III-compliant structures, and the regulatory clarifications needed to help investors assess new deals

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Before the UK can become the first non-Muslim country to issue an Islamic bond, there remain some structural issues to iron out

The October 16 initial public offering of Mexican dairy company Grupo Lala represented the country’s largest such offering this year. Its rare spin-off structure could set a precedent for other would-be LatAm listcos looking to raise their valuation

China’s Basel III regime is stricter than that of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s international framework, and involves an aggressive timeline

For a long time the Act on Investment Aid in the Slovak Republic has regulated investment aid provided by the state budget to domestic and foreign entrepreneurs and investors. Investment aid may be provided in the following forms: financial grants from the state budget; income tax relief; grants for newly established employment positions or transfer of state property to the entrepreneur for a price lower than the given market price. Entrepreneurs can obtain investment aid in some of the listed forms for a project in one of the supported areas. The supported areas are: industrial production; technological centres; and, centres of strategic services and tourism. Providing investment aid for these areas was changed by extensive amendments to the Act on Investment Aid in force since May 1 2013.

Qihoo 360's convertible bond was not only the first this year but also the largest ever such offering from a US-listed Chinaco.

Still the poster child for equity market reform

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One of Europe's senior political figures has said that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will not provide the region with the major funding required to return it to growth.