The compliance function, today a cornerstone of the control system in place within financial services providers, acts as an «instant legislator» that produces norms when legal or regulatory texts do not match practical contexts faced by market operators. Compliance officers can be described as...

Offshoring goes on growing, in spite of some ebbing away. It has been especially the case for the financial services industry over the last couple of years. As a result of this trend, it is the double stake of globalization and industries specialization that is being addressed. The comprehensive...

While the necessity of a regulation and of a surveillance of the stock exchange markets is weakly disputed today, the surveillance devices set into force differs from one country to the other according to the legal system concept. Starting from a comparison between the American and the French...

As a stock exchange dedicated to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the success of the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) has established this segment of the London Stock Exchange as the benchmark, of which the Alternext is considered a flawed copy. This article aims to invalidate this...

The effect of debt on private investment is theoretically undetermined. Indeed, according to the theory, the relation between debt and private investment can either be negative (debt overhang) or positive (accelerator effect on economic growth, hence on private investment). Our study consists in...

Activité récente, le capital investissement est aujourd'hui au coeur du financement des entreprises. À l'échelle internationale, le niveau des montants levés par le capital investissement s'élevait en 2004 à 2 241 milliards d'euros. Aujourd'hui, le capital investissement européen et...

This paper posits itself in the stream of literature related to event studies and in particular the September 11th event. It is the first study to our knowledge that investigates the impact on the French financial market of September 11th, 2001 and September 21st, 2001. Was there any information...