File Name

File Description

·  Index (Doc1)

·  March18agenda (Doc2)

Meeting agenda.

·  Obstacles to Business and Capital Formation (Doc3)

Views of a Practitioner.

Peter D. Ehrenhaft

Miller & Chevalier Chartered

Washington, D.C.

·  Women Entrepreneurs in Central America (Doc4)

Overview of provisions governing the rights of women as entrepreneurs (NLCIFT).

·  Law in Economic Development (Doc5)

Toward a Theory of Law in Economic Development: The Costa Rican USAID – ROCAP Law Reform Project (Boris Kozolchyk) (excerpts – Section III – The Law and Corporate Capital Formation).

·  Hague Convention (Doc6)

Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in Respect of Securities held with an Intermediary (PRIMA Convention).

·  IFLR on PRIMA (Doc7)

Article by the International Financial Law Review:  PRIMA Convention cuts risk for banks.

·  Investment Securities in Mexico (Doc10)

An overview of legal aspects of investment securities in Mexico. (Juan Enrique García – NLCIFT).

·  J_Sommer ML Securities Transfer (Doc11)

Model Law on Securities Transfer and Custody in an Indirect Holding System (Joseph Sommer).

·  MODEL LAW cidipviversionfinal (Doc12)

Text of the Model Inter-American Law on Secured Transactions (English and Spanish).

·  Article on OAS Model Law (Doc13)

The Organization of American States’ Model Inter-American Law on Secured Transactions – Boris Kozolchyk, John M. Wilson.

·  Uniform Law Review Article Translated in Spanish (Doc14)

The Organization of American States’ Model Inter-American Law on Secured Transactions – Boris Kozolchyk, John M. Wilson (Spanish version).

·  IAREDS BILINGUAL (Doc15)

Text of the Inter-American Rules for Electronic Documents and Signatures (English and Spanish).  (NLCIFT)

·  IAREDS-overview (Doc16)

Analysis and commentaries on IAREDS (NLCIFT).

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·  IPG English (April 2001)(IPGe)

THE WORLD BANK - Principles and Guidelines for Effective Insolvency and Creditor Rights Systems

16.  

·  IPG Spanish (April 2001)(IPGe)

BANCO MUNDIAL - Principios y Líneas rectoras para sistemas eficientes de insolvencia y de derechos de los acreedores

·  Cross-border securitizations MM (March, Generic) (Doc17)

Cross-Border Securitizations (Mark Michigan)

·  Securitization - CR (March, Specific) (Doc18)

First Costa Rican Housing Finance Corporation:

A Case Study In Cross-Border Securitizations (Mark Michigan)

·  Securitization_feasibility description (Doc19)

Identification of legal questions pertaining to securitization in Mexico—and possibly other Latin American countries.  (NLCIFT)

·  CROSS-BORDER FINANCING-Securit-Mexico (Doc20)

Securitization and the Guaranty Trust in Mexico (Teresa A. Gallegos).

·  Securitizations in Central America (Doc21)

An article on securitizations in Latin America, by Erica W. Stump.

·  Cross-Border Securitization in Sweden (Doc22)

Cross-Border securitization from a Swedish perspective – an alternative model (Robert Karlsson).

·  Latin American Diagrams_collateral (Doc23)

Legal provisions on collateral in 17 jurisdictions (NLCIFT).

·  2002YIR (Doc24)

2002 Review and 2003 Outlook: Latin American Asset-Backed and Mortgage-Backed Securities-Volumes Decrease in 2002 Amid Concerns of Key Countries' Economies; Domestic-Asset Securitization Increases.  (Moody’s).

·  BrazilNewMBS (Doc25)

Brazil’s New Mortgage Law and the Development of a Mortgage Market (Moody’s).

·  BS1NIR (Doc26)

Brazilian Securities Series 2001-1 (Moody’s).

·  Contract-enforceability (Doc27)

Contract Enforceability Indicators

A Measure of the Enforceability of Commercial Contracts and Mortgage Agreements in state court in Mexico based on an independent opinion study conducted by the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and the law firm Gaxiola Moraila y Asociados. (Moody’s)

·  CostaRicaNIR (Doc28)

Costa Rican Housing Finance Bond 2002-1 (Moody’s).

·  ExternalSupport (Doc29)

Using External Credit Support To Mitigate Sovereign Risk And Pierce The Country Ceiling In Structured Transactions (Moody’s).

·  LocalCurrencyGuidelines (Doc30)

Local Currency Guidelines

Moody’s is introducing local rating currency guidelines to facilitate the assignment of local currency ratings.  This is a natural outgrowth of the explosion of crossborder interest in local currency securities primarily in emerging markets. 

·  Metro_NIR (Doc31)

METROFINANCIERA - Series 2002-1 (Moody’s).

·  Mortgagereport (Doc32)

MOODY'S APPROACH TO RATING LATIN AMERICAN RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE BACKED SECURITIES.

·  MtgMethodSpanish (Doc33)

Moody's: Metodología Para La Calificación De Títulos Respaldados Por Hipotecas En América Latina.

·  Mortgage_Insurance (Doc34)

Valuing Lender-Paid Mortgage Insurance in MBS and ABS Transactions (Moody’s).

·  NationalScale (Doc35)

Moody’s Introduces National Scale Ratings.

·  Servier Report Hipotecaria Su Casita (Doc36)

HIPOTECARIA SU CASITA S.A. de C.V.  (Moody’s).

·  SHF (Doc37)

SOCIEDAD HIPOTECARIA FEDERAL:

Does the Mortgage Partial Guarantee Work? -

The Proof is in the Pudding.  (Moody’s).

·  SuCasita-2002-1 (Doc38)

Hipotecaria Su Casita — Series 2002-1  (Moody’s).

·  SystemicRisk (Doc39)

Moody’s Approach to Embedding Systemic Risk in the Rating Analysis and to Piercing the Local Currency Guideline in Structured Transactions.

·  Conciliation_UNCITRAL ML (Doc40)

Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on its thirty-fifth Session 17-28 June 2002 (including the text of the Model Law on International Commercial

Conciliation and the Draft Guide to Enactment and Use of the UNCITRAL Model Law on

International Commercial Conciliation.

·  Bankruptcy Study

Principal Characteristics of Bankruptcy in Latin America