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...

PIPEs are an important source of financing for many companies, yet controversial due to their harsh contractual structures. We present a detailed study of how PIPE contracts allocate contingent cash flow rights between investor and issuer. We study the role of placement agents in PIPE contract...

The article offers a practical guidance for Certified Public Accountant (CPAs) on the responsibilities, rights and risks involved in detecting possible securities, violations given the whistleblower provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act. The Dodd-Frank Act and the rules established by the U.S....

This article analyses and discusses the new MiFID II and MiFIR rules for the EU financial markets. In particular, it analyses the terms ‘regulated market', ‘MTF', ‘OTF' and ‘(systemic) internalisation'. It also discusses (i) pre-trade and post-trade transparency, (ii) transaction...

On 3 January 2018 – some ten years later – the MiFID regime will be replaced by MiFID II, which comprises, among other things, a directive (MIFID II), the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) and a truly impressive number of implementing measures, commonly referred to as level...

This paper proposes a policy framework for intercepting, monitoring and containing the unintended harmful effects of financial innovation. The current approach, adopted by several authorities, makes extensive use of the tools of transparency and disclosure, mainly for consumer protection. It has...

Contrary to the predictions of standard economic theory, capital market liberalization has been a mixed blessing for many countries. Liberalization of debt inflows exposes economies to the risk of crises stemming from sudden changes in investor sentiment. Equity market liberalizations, on the...