Financial Derivatives have established themselves as a major driving force in the international monetary sphere in the recent past. While derivatives were originally used as an effective monetary instrument to multiply the wealth through ripple effect, of late these instruments are also used by...

The global financial meltdown has led to a renewed focus on the purposes of securities regulation and on the expansion of these purposes to include considerations of systemic risk; yet the case for such an expansion has been assumed more than argued. This article derives an argument for...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the liberalization of Taiwan's capital market regarding cross-Taiwan-Strait listing of securities. Taiwan is in an advantageous position to compete with other Asian rivals to attract issuers and capital from China. However, the long political hostility...

This paper considers how the landscape of New Zealand securities regulation has changed in the 30 years since John Farrar and Mark Russell's 1985 Company Law and Securities Regulation in New Zealand. The discussion focuses on the reasons for the development in New Zealand, and how to locate this...

Section 913 of the Dodd-Frank Act requires the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to conduct a study regarding gaps or deficiencies in the regulation of broker-dealers and investment advisers. These firms often perform similar functions but are regulated differently under an antiquated...

In light of the twentieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Shearson v. McMahon enforcing a pre-dispute arbitration clause in a brokerage customer's account agreement, the author revisits the assumptions of the McMahon Court supporting its conclusion that arbitration is fair to...

DeFi, or Decentralized Finance, is the technological distribution of financial services empowered by blockchain. This alternative market deals with similar processes of traditional finance involving the creation, management, and investment of money and financial assets. However, the fundamental...

The future efficiency of the payments system is at stake. Existing stored value products (SVPs, e.g., gift cards and gift card apps) are early prototypes of what payments and money will become: digital, dis-intermediated, and possibly, neither state- nor bank-issued. These products have defied...

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The past few years have seen enormous change in US financial market regulation, with the specifics of some of the most radical changes, in the securities area, yet to be decided. This chapter explores US regulation of the insurance, banking, securities and futures trading sectors, and seeks to...