The paper seeks to investigate the use and role of securitisation as main structured finance tool, and to assess the legal pitfalls, if any, that underlie the arrangement of this financing technique. This is done firstly by looking at the legal development of securitisation and at the regulatory...

This article analyses the international trend towards the adoption of short-form disclosure documents for retail financial products through a comparison of six jurisdictions: the European Union, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada and New Zealand. For the purposes of the analysis,...