Articles and Alerts about Derivatives, Structured Products and Hybrids

Derivatives
Structured Products
Hybrids

Derivatives

News Alerts

• "Credit Derivatives: Recent Regulatory Developments"
• "UK Contracts for Difference Disclosure Regime"
• "The Fed/Treasury gave us TARP – How will the SEC Protect the Market from Exposure to Naked Short Sales and other Abusive Transactions?"
• "UK’s FSA Proposes a ‘Permanent’ Extension of the Disclosure Rules for all Short-Sellers"
• "Update on UK’s Short-Selling Measures: FSA Proposes to End the Ban but to Extend the Disclosure Regime"
• "Collateral Trapped is Collateral Damage in the Wake of the Lehman Brothers Debacle"
• "CESR Consultation Paper on UCITS Management Company Passport"
• "Credit Default Swaps as Insurance: One Regulator or Many?"
• "Update Regarding UK's Short-Selling Prohibition"
• "SEC Clarifies Short Sale Restrictions and Related Disclosure Requirements"
• "New Restrictions on Short Sales; Disclosure Requirements for Short Sales and Positions; and Relaxed Issuer Repurchase Requirements"
• "UK's New Short-Selling Prohibition"
• "SEC Takes Emergency Action on Shorting; South Dakota Short Selling Ballot Initiative"
• "CESR and ERGEG Expected to Recommend a Bespoke EU Market Abuse Framework for the Energy Markets"
• "A Short Summary of Short Selling Regulations”
• "Heightened Derivatives and Trading Disclosure for UK Equity Markets"
• “CSX Ramifications”

Articles 

• "International Briefings: CDS and the Crisis" by Anna Pinedo and James Tanenbaum
  First published in International Financial Law Review February 2009. Used by permission.
• "The Short Story" by Anna Pinedo and James Tanenbaum
  First published in Financier Worldwide January 2009. Used by permission.
• "Learning Curve: U.K. Contracts for Difference Disclosure Regime" by Peter Green and Jeremy Jennings-Mares
  First published in Derivatives Week December 1, 2008. Used by permission.
• "Securities Markets: Short Selling Under Fire" by David Kaufman and Anna Pinedo
  First published in INSIGHTS November 2008. Used by permission.
• "Soapbox: The Challenges Facing Ucits" by Jon Brassey
  First published in Financial Times Mandate October 2008. Used by permission.
• "Recent Developments in the Disclosure Regime for Economic Interest in Shares" by Peter Green and Jeremy Jennings-Mares
  First published in Euromoney Global Banking & Financial Policy Review October 2008. Used by permission.
• "International Briefings: Real Estate Swaps" by Thomas A. Humphreys, Shamir Merali and Remmelt Reigersman
  First published in International Financial Law Review September 2008. Used by permission.
• "Conceal and be Damned: The FSA has Proposed Disclosure Rules That Will Change the Derivatives Landscape" by Peter Green and Jeremy Jennings-Mares
  First published in International Financial Law Review August 2008. Used by permission.
• “Managing Risk Special Report: The Power of Influence” by Anna Pinedo
  First published in Financier Worldwide August 2008. Used by permission.
• “Learning Curve: U.K. Contracts for Difference Disclosure Regime” by Peter Green and Jeremy Jennings-Mares
  First published in Derivatives Week July 21, 2008. Used by permission.
• “Learning Curve: Emissions Allowance Trading Documentation” by Jeremy Jennings-Mares and Lewis Lee
  First published in Derivatives Week May 26, 2008. Used by permission.
• "The Long Shadow of the Shorts" by Anna Pinedo and James Tanenbaum
  First published in Financier Worldwide February 2008. Used by permission.
• "Learning Curve. MiFID: The Implications for Derivatives and Structured Products" by Peter Green and Jeremy Jennings-Mares
  First published in Derivatives Week January 21, 2008. Used by permission.
• "International Briefings: Coupling Call-spreads and Convertibles" by Thomas A. Humphreys, Shamir Merali, and Remmelt A. Reigersman
  First published in International Financial Law Review September 2007. Used by permission.

Structured Products

News Alerts

• "Institute of International Finance's (IIF) Final Report on Market Best Practices for Financial Institutions and Financial Products"
• "The Counterparty Risk Management Policy Group III Report Includes Detailed Suggestions for Financial Intermediaries"

Articles

• "IIF’s Final Report on Market Best Practices for Financial Institutions and Financial Products" by Peter Green and Jeremy Jennings-Mares
  First published in Banking & Financial Services Policy Report September 2008. Used by permission.
• "International Briefings: Exchange-traded Notes" by Thomas A. Humphreys, Shamir Merali, and Remmelt A. Reigersman
  First published in International Financial Law Review March 2008. Used by permission.
• "The Structured Products Market: Not Drowning but Waving" by Peter Green and Jeremy Jennings-Mares
  First published in Financier Worldwide December 2007. Used by permission.
• "Levelling the Structured Products Playing Field" by Peter Green
  First published in Public Service Review January 2008. Used by permission.
• "A View on 2007" by Anna Pinedo
  First published in Structured Products magazine in January 2007. Copyright 2007 Incisive Media. All rights reserved. Used by permission. www.structuredproductsonline.com
• "Legal and Regulatory Developments Relating to Structured Products" by Anna Pinedo
  First published in The Review of Securities and Commodities June 7, 2006 (Vol. 39, No. 11). Used by permission.
• "The Impact of the SEC's Securities Offering Reform Rules on the Registered Structured Products Market" by Lloyd Harmetz
  First published in Derivatives Report in October 2005. Copyright 2005 RIA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Hybrids

News Alerts

• "Defining Hybrid Capital"
• "New FASB Accounting Rules on Convertible Debt"
• "If it Quacks Like a Duck: Financial Instruments with Characteristics of Equity-Still Equity for FASB?"

Articles

• "Tales from the Credit Crunch: Selected Issues in the Taxation of Financial Instruments and Pooled Investment Vehicles" by Thomas A. Humphreys
  First published in Journal of Taxation of Financial Products by CCH June 2008.
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• “International Briefings: Subprime Ripple Effect” by Anna Pinedo and James Tanenbaum
  First published International Financial Law Review April 2008. Used by permission.
• “Exceptionally Intelligent Design” by Anna Pinedo
  First published in Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law in April 2008. Used by permission.
• "Degree of Difficulty, 9; Style Points, 5 (or Understanding Hybrids)" by Anna Pinedo
  First published in Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law in April 2007. Used by permission.
• "Hybrid Capital – the US Tax Perspective" by Thomas A. Humphreys and Arthur Man
  First published in The Euromoney Hybrid Capital Handbook 2007/08, published by Euromoney Yearbooks in March 2007. Used by permission.
• "What Next for Hybrid Financings?" by Anna Pinedo and James Tanenbaum
  First published in Financier Worldwide magazine January 2007. Used by permission.
• "Tax Deductible Equity and Other Hybrids in the United States – A Brief History and Current Developments" by Thomas A. Humphreys
  First published in IFR Hybrid Capital Guide 2007. Used by Permission.
• "Next Generation Hybrid Securities"  by Anna Pinedo
  First published in Wall Street Lawyer in May 2006. Copyright 2006 Thomson/West Legalworks. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
• "Developments in Bank Hybrid Capital - the Regulatory Perspective" by Thomas A. Humphreys and Oliver Ireland
  First published in The Euromoney Hybrid Capital Handbook 2006/07, published by Euromoney Yearbooks in March 2006.

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