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  • Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance have closed the second securitization of income from the lease of buildings still under construction. The £1.25 billion ($1.78 billion) securitization of the rental income on four office buildings is the fifth deal the two firms have closed for the Canary Wharf Group, the developer that built London's most outstanding landmark, and follows groundbreaking work done for the client last year.
  • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom is advising Citigroup on the $1 billion initial public offering (IPO) of wholly-owned subsidiary Travelers Property Casualty. The New York firm, Citigroup's principal outside corporate and securities counsel, is working opposite Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, which is acting for the underwriters, led by Salomon Smith Barney.
  • Ashurst Morris Crisp is refocusing its structured finance practice away from issuers and towards financial institutions.
  • SEC general counsel steps down
  • The Securities Industry Association last month released guidelines on preventing money laundering.
  • Authorities in Shanghai are looking at developing rules for a corporate credit-rating system, according to local lawyers.
  • Financial institutions will soon have to adopt more transparent practices in the way they allocate shares to institutional and retail investors in primary offerings.
  • A revised Code of Banking Practice, applicable to relationships between individual customers and authorized institutions under the Banking Ordinance (AIs), became effective as of December 1 2001. AIs generally have six months to comply with its terms.
  • Bankers in over 15 countries fear domestic and international regulation is a growing threat to their business, according to an industry survey published in February. The rulemaking of national regulators such as the UK's Financial Services Authority, and efforts to introduce global measures such as the Basle II capital accord, now rank as top-10 threats to the banking world, the survey suggests.
  • The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (Moftec) recently issued Interim Measures regarding Examination and Approval of Foreign Invested Leasing Companies (FILCs). Taking effect as of September 1 2001, the Measures contain a framework for foreign investors to form equity or cooperative sino-foreign JV leasing companies.