What this service is:

World Securities Law Report informs you of developments in the regulation of transactions involving securities around the world. It provides expert analysis and practical guidance, with a particular focus on developments affecting cross-border transactions.

What it helps you do:

• Keeps you up to date with news of legal, legislative, and regulatory developments affecting transactions involving securities around the world.
• Supplements that news with analysis of major developments and practical guidance on compliance written by experts in different countries.
• Enables you to track changes in laws and regulations in individual countries, with a special emphasis on those changes affecting cross-border transactions.
• Also keeps you up to speed on developments at the international level — such as actions by the International Organization of Securities Commissions and the EU Committee of European Securities Regulators, among others — as well as at the bilateral level, such as Memoranda of Understanding between national regulators.
• Saves you time and expense by enabling you to quickly and easily search for relevant material in a single, convenient database.
• Links to the full text of new regulations and other key documents allow you to go directly to the source material.

Product Structure

Notification: current reports providing news and analysis

Formats and Frequency

Web notification is published continually. Print notification is issued monthly. Web current reports are archived to September 2004. E-mail summaries are also available.

• Accounting standards
• Broker-dealer regulation
• Compliance and enforcement
• Corporate governance
• Derivatives
• Disciplinary actions
• Disclosure and reporting
• Exchanges and markets
• Financial analysts
• Fraud
• Insider trading
• Investment advisers and intermediaries
• Jurisdiction
• Listing requirements
• Market abuse
• Market regulation
• Mutual funds
• Securitization
• Self-regulatory organizations
• Shareholder rights