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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Hong Kong Regulatory Update - August 2024

查看中文 This update primarily provides an overview of key regulatory developments in the second quarter of 2024 relevant to companies listed, or planning to list, on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKEx) and their...more

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CRT and SRT trades: an introductory guide for issuers and investors - June 2024

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Our new report provides a practical introduction to credit risk transfer (CRT) and significant risk transfer (SRT) trades. It is a comprehensive starting point for new issuers, investors and other stakeholders. While CRT...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

The End of CDOR: June 28, 2024

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On June 6, 2024, the Ontario Securities Commission, Autorité des marchés financiers, British Columbia Securities Commission and Alberta Securities Commission published CSA Multilateral Staff Notice 25-312 Reminder of...more

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The Latham FPI Guide: Accessing the US Capital Markets From Outside the United States - 2023 Edition

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Fabry-Pérot Interferometer, SA is a highly successful non-US company known to the world as FPI. FPI is considering doing a debt or equity offering in the United States. What are the key legal issues it, and its underwriters...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

UK Rules on Margin Requirements for Non-Centrally Cleared Derivatives

In Consultation Paper 13/23 (CP 13/23), the UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority (“PRA”) sets out its “Margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives: Amendments to BTS 2016/2251.”...more

Woodruff Sawyer

Guide to D&O Insurance for SPAC IPOs, 2023 Edition

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As they go through their initial public offering (IPO) and the subsequent merger & acquisition (M&A) process, special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) face many regulatory, legal, and business hurdles. Obtaining the...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Changes to Ontario’s Fee Rules To Take Effect in April

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Certain market participants in Ontario’s over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market will be required to pay an Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) annual participation fee. Reduced fees for most existing fee payers will also...more

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Continuing or cured? The suspension of swap payments following an event of default may not be unlimited

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The High Court of England and Wales has recently provided welcome clarification around the nature of events of default under derivatives contracts governed by the ISDA Master Agreement, in particular in relation to whether an...more

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The Latham FPI Guide: Accessing the US Capital Markets From Outside the United States - 2022 Edition

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Fabry-Pérot Interferometer, SA is a highly successful non-US company known to the world as FPI. FPI is considering doing a debt or equity offering in the United States. What are the key legal issues it, and its underwriters...more

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CFTC Releases Interim Report into April WTI Futures Price Collapse; Commissioner Berkovitz Issues Scathing Critique

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently issued an interim report by CFTC Staff on the April 2020 price collapse of the West Texas Intermediate light sweet crude oil futures contract (WTI Futures Contract)....more

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How Best to Navigate the LIBOR Transition: Challenges and Solutions for Corporate Treasurers and CFOs

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The LIBOR transition is not simply a “bank problem.” With the looming transition deadline of year-end 2021, we specifically designed a guide for corporates entitled, How Best to Navigate the LIBOR Transition: Challenges and...more

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CFTC Adopts New Federal Position Limits and Amendments

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, by a 3-2 vote on October 15, 2020, adopted amendments to Part 150 of the CFTC Regulations (Amendments). Part 150 currently imposes federal speculative position limits on nine futures...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest, Featuring Articles on New NYSE Direct Listing Rules from the SEC, a CFTC No-Action Letter...

SEC/CORPORATE - SEC Stays Implementation of New NYSE Direct Listing Rules - As discussed in the August 31, 2020 edition of the Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest, on August 26, the Securities and Exchange Commission...more

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Regulators determined to keep SOFR transition on track

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The disruption to capital markets caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has not shifted the overall timeline of regulators and industry bodies for the replacement of US dollar LIBOR with SOFR by the end of 2021. With the expected...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Coronavirus/COVID-19 Update

As health organizations and governments around the world work to contain the coronavirus (COVID-19), businesses should be mindful of the various ways the virus may impact their operations and employees. The wide range of...more

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International Organization of Securities Commissions Priorities for 2020

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The International Organization of Securities Commissions has published its annual work program, setting out its priorities for 2020. IOSCO will continue to focus on the five areas identified by its Board in 2019 as well as...more

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SOFR Surge Event: What Just Happened?!

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SOFR – the secured overnight funding rate in USD – is a rate published by the New York federal reserve based upon secured overnight transactions in the repo market. It is of increasing importance, since it has been regarded...more

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ISDA Forges Ahead With Market Consultations on Critical IBOR Transition Issues

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Two new consultations seek market input on USD and other currencies and on inclusion of "non-representativeness" trigger - The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. ("ISDA") launched two additional IBOR...more

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ISDA Publishes Results of Benchmark Fallbacks Consultation as Sunset Looms for LIBOR

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The Situation: The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. ("ISDA") has announced the preliminary results of its market consultation concerning the fallbacks rates to be relied on upon cessation of certain...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Transitioning Away from the IBORs: ISDA Publishes Consultation Seeking Feedback on Adjustments of Risk-Free Rates

In a move that coincided with statements by regulators on both sides of the Atlantic that interbank offered rates (each an “IBOR”) will in time be discontinued, on July 12, 2018, the International Swaps and Derivatives...more

Sullivan & Worcester

Après LIBOR: Black Swan or Y2K

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A practical guide to the cessation of LIBOR and the transition to a new replacement benchmark rate. Unquestionably, the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate ("LIBOR") is an integral part of nearly every type of financial product...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Canadian Regulators Issue Revised Derivatives Dealer and Adviser Business Conduct Rule Proposal

On June 14, 2018, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published for comment a revised version of Proposed National Instrument 93-101 – Derivatives: Business Conduct (Business Conduct Rule). The Business Conduct Rule...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

The SEC’s Final Rule Regarding Price Quotes and Research Reports Relating to Security-Based Swaps

This month the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued a final rule (the “Final Rule”) that provides that certain communications relating to security-based swaps (either singular or plural, “SBS”) will not...more

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Key Regulatory Topics: Weekly Update - 15 December 2017 – 21 December 2017

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BREXIT - CBI Brexit guide to EU bodies and regulators: financial services aspects - On 21 December, the CBI published a guide to the EU bodies and regulators that matter to business in the Brexit negotiations, including...more

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Department of the Treasury Issues Report Recommending U.S. Capital Markets Regulatory Reforms

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury has issued a report to the President recommending extensive regulatory and legislative reforms to the U.S. capital markets. The recommendations, in response to the White House's executive...more

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