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On 20 November 2012, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced a package of regulatory reforms targeted at the growth in high frequency trading, the use of dark pools and the use of automated order processing systems in Australia's...

It is common practice to insert into contracts unilateral choice-of-court clauses, granting to one party only the option to refer the dispute to one of several jurisdictions. Until now, the validity of this type of clauses did not seem problematic. However,...

En pratique, il est assez courant d’insérer dans les contrats des clauses attributives de juridiction asymétriques, permettant à l’une des parties seulement de bénéficier d’une option entre plusieurs tribunaux....

How are current events in the Eurozone affecting the international financial markets? What are the likely outcomes ahead and how can market participants prepare for them? Clifford Chance partners from the firm’s sovereign debt rescheduling, regulatory and...

Clifford Chance's International Regulatory Update is a weekly digest of significant regulatory developments affecting banking and investment banking business, drawing on our daily content from our Alerter: Finance Industry service.

On 18 December 2012, the State Duma (the lower chamber of the Russian parliament) adopted in the final, third, reading the first set of amendments to the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. The adopted amendments represent only a small part of the amendments...

On 18 December 2012, the State Duma (the lower chamber of the Russian parliament) adopted in the final, third, reading the first set of amendments to the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. The adopted amendments represent only a small part of the amendments...

The European Union (EU) agenda for regulatory reform in the financial sector continues to take shape. The EU has played a leading role in the development of the G20's action plan to respond to the financial crisis and many of the actions being taken aim to...

On 1 August 2010, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) took over the responsibility for supervising domestic licensed markets and participants of licensed markets from the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and introduced Market Integrity...

On 19 December 2012, the French Government proposed a new law on separation and regulation of banking activities. The proposals would require larger French banks to separate certain trading and investment activities into dedicated subsidiaries and envisage the...