This Chapter discusses the expanded powers that a foreign bank or its parent (foreign banking organization or FBO) may exercise in the United States if it successfully elects to be treate...

Since Hong Kong’s statute-backed inside information disclosure regime saw the light of day on January 1 2013, the market has been trying to acclimatize to it. Senior managers of Hong Ko...

This year, we have seen executive compensation issues continue to dominate the global governance agenda, especially in Europe in the wake of the recent Swiss referendum, in which voters a...

Recently, much attention has been paid to a trend known a “futurization”—the recasting of economic arrangements previously transacted as “swaps” to trade as “futures” as a r...

The US and global financial crisis in 2008 precipitated an avalanche of activity and changes in US banking regulation. In that year, the US Congress, the President and the regulators exer...

Asset managers are gearing up to comply with many Dodd-Frank-mandated swap regulations in the coming months.

In the March 2013 issue of The Investment Lawyer , Part 1 of this article addressed the process by which investment funds or their advisers could be designated as systemically important f...