Whether you are a small time investor or an active one, it is very important to have thorough financial literacy, how to invest, where to invest, how much to invest etc. Being aware about investing helps the investors to fully appreciate opportunities and associated risks, take informed...

The paper discusses the policy implications of the Wirecard scandal. The study finds that all lines of defense against corporate fraud, including internal control systems, external audits, the oversight bodies for financial reporting and auditing and the market supervisor, contributed to the...

Online trading platforms and internet communities facilitate access to financial markets and let investors reduce transaction and coordination costs. In this way: (1) they permit many people to be directed towards a single goal, but, at the same time, (2) they allow operations aimed at...

The development of EU financial regulation after the financial crisis has been characterised by a growing attention given to supervision and enforcement rules, in order to guarantee both the stability of the markets and the protection of investors. In this context, the regulation of credit...

In this paper we build a new and meaningful shareholder protection index for five countries and code the development of the law for over three decades. Attributing and comparing legal differences by numbers is contrary to the traditional way of doing comparative law and the use of a quantitative...

Sketched in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 1929, US capital markets law was in large parts an example to the relatively young European capital markets law. After another financial crisis which showed the fragility of the financial markets in recent times, this article seeks to sketch...

The year 2009 is a propitious time to evaluate systems of investor protection in financial markets as global bank losses exceed the 1 trillion mark and market losses equally exceed the 1 trillion mark. Prior to the Global Financial Crisis, the European Union enacted sweeping legislation to...