Online Peer-to-Peer lending (P2P lending or online lending), as an important component of financial technologies (fintechFinTech), was once very popular in China, but by the end of 2020, it had been completely wiped out from the Chinese financial landscape. This is not really due to business...

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Cryptoassets have emerged as a new category of financial products in recent years and have attracted a great deal of attention from market participants and regulators. While the characteristics of cryptoassets, such as anonymity and disintermediation in transactions, bring significant benefits,...

China is one of the pioneers in developing innovative models for credit business through a partnership between Fintech firms and traditional financial institutions such as banks. There are different business models of this Fintech-Bank partnership, a common feature being that in entering into...

The aim of this paper is to critically examine China’s regulation for securities offerings in light of the recent financial global crisis and, based on these findings, make policy recommendations for future reform. The Chinese regulatory regime contains the key element of merits review, apart...

This paper is written in Chinese and published in China. The modern banking industry is rapidly developing with a clear trend towards globalization. Accordingly, international community has been working hard collectively to seek the best practice of banking regulation. The two Basel accords are...

There has been an ongoing surge of cross-border M&A activity in China since its WTO accession. This has prompted the Chinese government to reform its legal regime by promulgating the Provisions on the Takeover of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign Investors on 8 August 2006 (2006 Foreign M&A...

Determining the proper class of plaintiffs that might be allowed to sue an insider trader for damages has been a very difficult task. The article will first discuss the development of three main approaches to the issue, namely the privity approach, the contemporaneous trader approach and the...

The article conducts a critical analysis of the newly introduced statutory derivative action in China and then makes relevant recommendations for reform. The introduction of derivative actions is a major development in Chinese company legislation. In general, the provisions have established a...

This article examines the recently promulgated takeover regulation by the China Securities Regulatory Commission. Along with other laws and regulations, this new regulation has greatly enhanced China's takeover legal regime both in terms of form and substance. It comes at time when the Chinese...