This paper asks what Capital Markets Union (CMU) means for the future of financial market regulation in the European Union and suggests an answer: the merging of public and private regulation. In the pre-crisis period, public regulation and private regulation of financial markets were separate...

This chapter is concerned with the relations between public and private regulation in respect of hedge funds, which in their own ways govern and re-shape markets, making moral, fairness and efficiency claims and drawing in regulatory resources where they can. Three hedge fund strategies are...