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Emails are increasingly being used (and demanded) as evidence by US courts, and the implications of this are rippling around the globe. Ellen Davis looks at what international firms need to be doing with their email to ensure they can handle the changing…

Cross-border confusion

Despite demand from investors for retail structured products, international growth is being hindered by regulatory anomalies. Peter Green and Jeremy Jennings-Mares explain

Confusion reigns

Exactly what the role of home and host regulators will be for the regulation of branches under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) remains an elusive issue. The industry is clear that firms should have to follow only one set…

Nymex considers lawsuit against Optionable

The New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) may take legal action against Valhalla, NY-based brokerage firm Optionable, the exchange’s chief executive officer James Newsome announced this week.

Legal eagles

Clifford Chance has been ranked number one in the first annual OpRisk & Compliance survey of law firms engaged in risk and compliance activities for financial services firms. But as the results attest, risk and compliance is a hot area for global law…

The Age of e-discovery

New regulations in the US and Europe are pushing email retention and storage up the agenda of financial services firms. Peter Madigan explores the challenges and the pitfalls of the changes for compliance teams

All in the mind

The number of op risk patent applications filed in the US has soared. Duncan Wood investigates the efforts being made to protect intellectual property

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