It has been argued that the lack of transparency on the London Stock Exchange, caused by the practice of delaying publication of large trades, has adverse consequences for the market in traded share options on LIFFE. This hypothesis is investigated in two ways. First, the structure of equity...

This paper presents a formal analysis of the effects of asset backed securisation on the capital composition of banking institutions. A model of a banking firm is presented that highlights the interrelationship between deposit insurance, capital requirements and securitisation.

The purpose of this paper is to present an application of a cach flow-based Contingent Claims Analysis (CCA) to equity valuation. The cach flow-based Contingent Claims Analysis is used to extend a traditional CCA toproblems with incomplete capital markets, overreacted markets of situations where...

The paper examines the concepts of time and space compression brought about by the process of globalization, and its implications for the securities industry.

Proposals and recommendations have been made in a number of reports in an attempt to encourage firms to adopt of "best practice", as identified by the Group of Thirty, through public disclosure requirements and rules for determining the amount of regulatory capital to support trading and...

This paper provides an introduction to a form of financial innovation which is the relatively recent phenomenon of asset backed securisation (ABS). An overview of the related issues and importance of this trend towards asset backed securisation in the UK by financial institutions is provided....

The fundamental financial instrument approach of the FASB proposes that a compound instrument, such as a convertible bond, can be understook as being made up of fundamental financial instruments. Two methods of accounting for a convertible bond are seen as consistent with this approach: (a)...

The debate about the taxation of share options is not new. In fact there is a sense of deja vu about many of the arguments made by various parties following the Chancellor's announcement of abolish income tax relief on share options.