Banking and Finance Insight - 1 September 2010
01 September 2010 

• Octaviar: Appeal dismissed, back to normality

Fact Sheet No 5. Covered Bond Briefs
12 August 2010 

• Covered Bonds v Securitisation

Covered Bonds Article - November 2009
15 June 2010 

• Uncovering a covered bond market in Australia

Fact Sheet 1. Covered Bond Briefs
02 June 2010 

• Top ten most frequently asked questions

Fact Sheet 2. Covered Bond Briefs
02 June 2010 

• Key characteristics of covered bonds

Fact Sheet 3. Covered Bond Briefs
02 June 2010 

• A brief history of covered bonds

Fact Sheet 4. Covered Bond Briefs
02 June 2010 

• The covered bond continuum

Restructuring and Insolvency Insight - 23 April 2010
23 April 2010 

• Sons of gwalia bill released

Banking and Finance Insight - 12 March 2010
12 March 2010 

• Octaviar:The law remains unsettled.

The Review - February 2010
10 February 2010 

• Insolvency Reform - What it means

The Review - October 2009
27 October 2009 

•   Focus on Cross-Border Insolvency

Banking and Finance Insight: 16 October 2009
16 October 2009

HDY Banking and Finance Insight - Octaviar decision overturned by Queensland Court of Appeal - 18 September 2009
18 September 2009

• Queensland Court of Appeal finds in favour of Fortress and upholds the validity of its charge

Banking and Finance Newsletter: 15 September 2009
15 September 2009

• Reminder: Reserve your rights
• Australian covered bonds: Update
• PPSA update
• Octaviar: Recent developments

Banking, Restructuring and Insolvency Insight: 30 July 2009
30 July 2009

English Court rules on the validity of Lehman credit-linked notes structures involving Australian investors

Banking and Finance Insight: June 2009
29 June 2009

• Significant changes to mortgage duty in NSW

Banking & Finance Alert: March 2009
18 March 2009

• Court decision extends charge variation registration requirements

Banking Restructuring Insolvency Review: December 2008
10 February 2009

• The House Of Lords Returns HIH's English Assets
• Personal Property Securities Bill
• Indefeasible Mortgages
• Funded liquidators and security for costs
• Recent Cases
• Team Profiles

Banking Restructuring Insolvency Alert: Feb 2009
10 February 2009

• Government to amend law retrospectively to create GST liability for Insolvency Practitioners

Banking & Finance Newsletter: January 2009
28 January 2009

• Mortgagees’ duties when exercising a power of sale
• Revisions to EFT Code and Code of Banking Practice
• Personal property securities reforms
• Stamp Duties update
• Punctual payments and waiver: A timely reminder

AML/CTF Reminder: Oct 2008
13 October 2008

• Reporting obligations to AUSTRAC
• Ongoing Customer Due Diligence (OCDD)

Banking and Finance: Sep 2008
22 September 2008

• Fraud and "all moneys" mortgages
• Directing security trustees
• Consumer credit updates
• Tip on progressive stamping
• Primary liability guarantees

Banking and Finance: Jun 2008
25 June 2008

• "Share lending agreement" transfers title to shares
• Instalment contracts
• Mortgage duty abolished in WA and QLD and reduced in SA
• Green Paper reforms

Banking Restructuring Insolvency Review: Apr 2008
30 April 2008

• Unexpected outcomes in liquidator litigation: lessons from Hall v Poolman
• Corporations Amendment (Insolvency) Act 2007
• Case summaries and legal developments
• Focus on change to duties and mortgagee sal
• Team profiles

Banking and Finance: Mar 2008
03 March 2008

• Change to duties of mortgagees and controllers when exercising a power of sale
• New borrowing law for superannuation funds

Banking Restructuring Insolvency Review: Dec 2007
20 December 2007

• Organisational and legal responses to fraud risks
• UNCITRAL Model Law Edges Forward
• Focus on privilege for in-house lawyers
• Case summaries and legal developments
• Focus on Distressed Debt Trading
• Developments in our practice
• A focus on some of our team

Banking and Finance: Nov 2007
08 November 2007

• Proposals for positive credit reporting
• Providing for future removal of limits on securities
• Limiting fees for consumer credit to cost recovery
• Security for amounts due under fraudulent loan

Banking Restructuring Insolvency Alert: Sep 2007
20 September 2007

• Introduction of UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency

Banking Restructuring Insolvency Review: Sep 2007
03 September 2007

• Feature article - Insolvency Law Reform: Pooling under the Corporations Amendment (Insolvency) Act 2007(Cth)
• Case summaries and legal developments
• Developments in our practice
• Team profiles

Financial Products Alert: Aug 2007
10 August 2007

• Changes to retail and wholesale client rules

Banking & Finance: Jul 2007
16 July 2007

• NSW mortgage duty to be abolished early
• Mezzanine lending
• Revision of Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits - UCP 600
• Something more than asset lending required for unjust loan

Banking Restructuring Insolvency Review: May 2007
17 May 2007

• Feature Article - UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency: where is the centre of main interests?
• Case summaries and legal developments
• Developments in our practice
• A focus on some of our team

Banking & Finance: Apr 2007
30 April 2007

• Developer's option to purchase land subject to fixed charge
• Priority for security interests registered on Trade Marks Register
• Ponzi loan found to be unjust under Consumer Credit Code

Banking Restructuring Insolvency Review: Feb 2007
26 February 2007

• Feature article
• Case summaries and legal developments
• Developments in our practice
• Team profiles

Banking Restructuring Insolvency Review: Nov 2006
06 November 2006

• Feature Articles
• Case summaries and legal developments
• Developments in our practice
• Team profiles

Banking & Finance: Oct 2006
12 October 2006

• Electronic transactions permitted by the Consumer Credit Code
• Guarantee upheld despite failing to insist on legal advice certificate
• Making a fuss - the injustice of pure asset lending

Financial Markets & Derivatives: Aug 2006
24 August 2006

• Latest news - Simpler Regulatory System Bill
• Regulation of websites as financial products
• Breach reporting and ASIC's updated guidelines
• Revised AML Bill and Rules released

Banking & Finance Alert: Aug 2006
10 August 2006

• Shareholders claim as creditors: High Court hears Sons of Gwalia appeal

Banking Retructuring Insolvency Review: Jul 2006
19 July 2006

• Feature Article
• Case summaries and legal developments
• A focus on some of our team
• Banking Restructuring & Insolvency partners

Banking & Finance: Jul 2006
01 July 2006

• Proposed amendments to mortgage duty law in NSW
• Other mortgage duty developments

Banking & Finance: Jun 2006
26 June 2006

• Changes to compulsory production of CTs for registration of second mortgages in NSW
• Stamp duty abolition - update
• First registered mortgagee's priority reconfirmed
• Risks posed by pure asset lending
• AFS Licence overrides NSW gaming law compliance requirements
• High Court to hear Sons of Gwalia creditor challenge

Anti-Money Laundering Laws: Mar 2006
13 March 2006

• At a Glance - how the current position matches expectations on key issues
• Timeline
• Key Terms
• Coverage
• Identity verification
• Agents of reporting entities
• Reporting obligations
• Funds transfers
• AML programs / Risk-based approach

Banking & Finance: Mar 2006
10 March 2006

• Requirements for valid exercise of lender's discretion to fix interest rates
• New Queensland requirements for identification of mortgagors
• Shareholders' damages cliams against insolvent companies - update on Sons of Gwalia decision
• Maximum Annual Percentage Rate in NSW and ACT expanded
• Closure of duty concession on mortgages associated with debentures

Banking & Finance Alert: Feb 2006
28 February 2006

• Shareholders as Creditors on Insolvency: Sons of Gwalia Decision Released

Banking & Finance Alert: Feb 2006
16 February 2006

• Administrators' Remuneration: Test Case Decision Released Today

Banking & Finance: Nov 2005
17 November 2005

• Security interests in goods - new bills of sale legislation passed
• Equitable mortgage created by deposit of title deeds
• IFRS - implications for financial covenants in facility documentation
• New regime for issue of securities in Europe

Anti-Money Laundering Laws: Sep 2005
26 September 2005

• About the new AML Laws
• Differences from the current laws
• The risk-based approach
• Coverage of the new laws
• Customer Due Diligence (CDD)
• Suspicious Transaction Reporting

Banking & Finance Alert: Sep 2005
16 September 2005

• Shareholders to be treated as creditors

Banking & Finance Alert: Jul 2005
06 July 2005

• Fixed charges over book debts: another nail in the coffin

Banking & Finance: Jun 2005
20 June 2005

• NSW refinancing concession capped
• Personal liability of trustee directors
• Australian Financial Services Licences - exemptions for securitisation vehicles
• NYSE member firm fined $2.1 million fine for violating recordkeeping rules
• Letter of comfort enforceable
• Who has an interest in poker machine entitlements
• Court's power to disclaim contracts

Banking & Finance: Feb 2005
01 February 2005

• Dollar Disclosure: ASIC Policy Statement 182
• Land Rich "Vendor Duty" 
• Freezing Injunctions - Do Banks Owe a Duty of Care? 
• ASIC Policy Statement 181 - Licensing: Managing Conflicts of Interest 
• Code of Banking Practice Update
• When is a Bank Bound by its Officer's Act?
• NZ Regulator Tackles Bank Outsourcing
• Consultation Papers Released for Comment

Banking & Finance Law: Nov 2004
04 November 2004

• Aircraft Securities: New Registration Regime Commences 15 November 2004
• Taxation Consequences of "Interest" Paid on Stapled Income Securities
• Multi-Jurisdictional Stamping Update
• Basic Deposit Products - Relief for Agents of ADI's
• Amendments to Australia's Foreign Investment Rules
• ASIC Guidance on Statements of Advice and Statements of Additional Advice
• Liability of Directors for Corporate Trustee's Incurrence of Liabilities - Continued
• Australian Financial Services Licences - Exemptions for Securitisation Vehicles
• Introducing the HDY Taxation Group
• Introducing the HDY Taxation Group (?)

Banking & Finance: Aug 2004
10 August 2004

• Water Reform in New South Wales: Issues for Security Holders
• Electronic Credit Contracts
• Stamp Duty Update
• Proposed Changes for Clearing and Settlement Facilities
• Liability of Directors for Corporate Trustee's Incurrence of Liabilities
• AML Reform

Banking & Finance: May 2004
04 May 2004

• NSW vendor transfer duty
• Effect on new international accounting standards
• Taking effective fixed charges over book debts
• Changes to WA hire purchase regime
• Lessons from Enron
• Tougher anti money laundering laws proposed

Banking & Finance: Feb 2004
24 February 2004

• Amendments to the content requirements of product disclosure statements statements of advice and periodic statements
• Amendment of Home Building Regulation 1997 (NSW): exemption to insurance requirements for multi-storey buildings
• Powers of attorney: changes to the legislation in New South Wales
• Standby letters of credit: unconscionable conduct under the Trade Practices Act

Banking Law: Dec 2003
24 December 2003

• New 'Land-Rich' Provisions
• ASIC Guide: "Meeting the financial requirements for your AFS licence, Compliance with Policy Statement 166"
• Chargebacks Revisited: The Decision in Emanuel's Case
• RBA Credit Card Reforms - Interchange Standard Impact

Banking & Finance: Jun 2003
30 June 2003

• Occupation certificates
• Charges over uncertificated securities
• Compulsory comparison rates
• Yerkey v Jones and de facto wives
• Insolvent trading - the Water Wheel decision
• Financial services reform
• Stamp duty update

Loan Security in the ACT - Dont Panic (Yet!): May 2003
26 May 2003

Banking & Finance Law: Dec 2002
31 December 2002

• Changes to Mortgage Duty in NSW
• QLD Hire Purchase Act gone & WA Act going... but Farm Finance Retains some Statutory Protections
• More on Credit Card Reforms

Banking & Finance Law: Sep 2002
16 September 2002

• Employee Entitlements to take Priority over Secured Creditors?
• "Comparison Rate" Disclosures for Personal Loans and Home Loans
• Code of Banking Practice Revised
• Credit Card Reforms
• New APRA Ratings

Banking Law: Aug 2000
07 August 2000

• Garcia v National Australia Bank Limited...Where to now? - George Weaver examines the High Court's judgment and comments on its impact on bankers
• Yerkey v Jones is still the law

Banking Law: Nov 1998
01 November 1998

• Changes to Cheques Law...The Cheques and Payment Orders Amendment Act 1998