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February 6, 2012
Foreign Exchange Committee Releases 15th Annual Survey of North American FX Volumes.
February 3, 2012
Flat Trading Summary.
February 1, 2012
U.K.'s Osborne Lodges 'Volcker Rule' Complaint (may require Wall Street Journal subscription).
New Policy Library and Position Limits Feature on Center For Financial Stability Website.
January 31, 2012
Bank of Canada’s Carney Says Volcker Rule Might Damage Markets (may require Bloomberg subscription).
Volcker Rule Stirs Up Opposition Overseas (may require NY Times subscription).
January 27, 2012
EU Red-Flags 'Volcker' (may require Wall Street Journal subscription).
January 26, 2012
In Memoriam, Ruth Mazzoni, 1965-2012.
Venezuela Withdraws ICSID Membership. English / Spanish
January 23, 2012
Ivory Coast Investor Meeting Presentation.
January 19, 2012
The Volcker Rule - Restrictions on Proprietary Trading - Implications for the US Corporate Bond Market (Oliver Wyman Report).
January 18, 2012
Moody's Upgrades Indonesia's Foreign-Currency Sovereign Credit Rating from Ba1 to Baa3.
January 17, 2012
GFMA’s Global FX Division Warns How Proposed Transaction Tax Would Affect FX Markets.
January 16, 2012
Market Making Under the Proposed Volcker Rule (Darrell Duffie, Stanford University Study).
FT Article: Egypt Asks IMF for $3.2bn Standby Facility.
FT Article: S&P Downgrades Eurozone Bail-Out Fund, EFSF.
Standard & Poor’s Downgrades the European Financial Stability Fund’s Long-Term Sovereign Credit Rating from AAA to AA+.
January 14, 2012
UK Faces Volcker Rule Clash (may require Telegraph subscription).
January 13, 2012
Ivory Coast Meeting Invitation to Creditors.
Standard & Poor's Downgrades the Long-Term Ratings on 9 EU Sovereigns (including downgrade of France from AAA to AA+).
January 12, 2012
Financial Stability Oversight Council Study and Recommendations on Prohibitions on Proprietary Trading & Certain Relationships with Hedge Funds & Private Equity Funds.
January 11, 2012
Japan and Canada Have Issued Warnings on the Adverse Effect that the Implementation of the Volcker Rule, As Currently Proposed, is Likely to Have on World Fixed Income Markets (may require Financial Times subscription).
January 6, 2012
Fitch Downgrades Hungary’s Long-Term Foreign Currency Issuer Default Rating from BBB- to BB+.
January 4, 2012
Holiday Schedule for EM Bond Trades for Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday.
January 3, 2012
EMTA Corporate Bond Forum, Sponsored by ING, to be Held in London on January 24, 2012. Click Here to Register.
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Treasury, Federal Reserve Board, FDIC and SEC Extend Comment Period on Dodd-Frank Act to February 13.
January 2, 2012
President Obama Signs New US Sanctions Targeting Foreign Banks Dealing with Iran (Cleary Gottlieb Memo).
December 23, 2011
Calculations for Payments on Uruguay VRR's Announced.
December 21, 2011
Approaching Deadline for Comments on the Volcker Rule under Dodd-Frank.
Moody's Downgrades Egypt's Government Bond Rating from B1 to B2.
Standard & Poor’s Downgrades Hungary’s Long-Term Sovereign Credit Rating from BBB- to BB+.
Moody's Downgrades Slovenia's Foreign-Currency Government Bond Rating from Aa3 to A1.
December 16, 2011
Moody's Downgrades Belgium's Foreign-Currency Government Bond Rating from Aa1 to Aa3.
December 15, 2011
EMTA Announces 3Q 2011 Debt Trading Stood at US$1.760 Trillion.
BM&F and BOVESPA Press Release on New Reference Rates.
Fitch Upgrades Indonesia's Long-Term Foreign Currency Issuer Default Rating from BB+ to BBB- (Investment Grade).
December 12, 2011
EMTA Letter Requesting Extension of Comment Period under Volcker Rule.
December 9, 2011
Statement by the Euro Area Heads of State or Government.
Europe’s Disastrous Summit (Felix Salmon).
December 8, 2011
EMTA Corporate Bond Forum, Sponsored by ING, to be Held in London on January 24, 2012. Invitations to be distributed shortly.
December 7, 2011
Holiday Schedule for EM Bond Trades for Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year's Holidays.
EMTA Special Presentation: The Vitro Effect: Troubling Development in Mexican Insolvency Law
Agenda
Rigging the Game in Mexico: The Role of Intercompany Claims (Alejandro Sainz, Cervantes y Sainz)
Mexico’s Concurso Mercantil from an International Bondholder’s Perspective - Should There be a “Vitro Premium?” (Robert Rauch, Gramercy Advisors)
How Did Recovery Ratings on Mexican Corporate Issuers Perform Through the Financial Crisis? (Jose Coballasi, Standard & Poor’s)
Mexico: Can it Have a Prosperous Future Without Effective Rule of Law? (Claudio Loser, Senior Fellow, Inter-American Dialogue; President, Centennial Group Latin America; Former IMF Western Hemisphere Director (1994 – 2002))
Document containing links to the above presentations and other articles and cases of interest
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NML Capital v. Argentina.
Aurelius Capital Partners v. Argentina.
Wilmington Trust v. Vitro.
December 1, 2011
EMTA Annual Meeting Sell Side Panel - Market Views on Key Variables for 2012.
November 30, 2011
Trade Association Letter Requesting Extension of Comment Period under Volcker Rule.
Murillo de Aragão to Deliver Keynote at EMTA's Forum in Miami to be Held on January 17, 2012. Click Here to Register.
EMTA's Fourth Quarter Bulletin is Now Available in our Bulletin Section.
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