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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...
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The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act gives the Securities and Exchange Commission the authority to deal with two issues especially important to retail investors. First, section 913 requires the SEC to conduct a six-month study on the effectiveness of existing standards...
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Investor protection is one of the most important objectives of the securities regulation. Functional approach …
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requirements; (ii) services quality requirements (conduct of business rules); and (iii) product regulation. By doing so clear … encompassing. Third, a new trend – and indeed paradigm shift – emerges. Until recently product regulation was virtually inexistent …; today three different types of product regulation can be distinguished: (i) product quality requirements; (ii) regulation of …
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effect was more pronounced in the disclosure year 2003 than in the new regulation period 2004-2008. For Big 5 audit firms …
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The paper conducts a concise yet comprehensive examination of the Chinese regulatory regime for takeovers of listed companies, covering important rules such as the mandatory bid rule, tender offer rules, disclosure of substantial shareholding, and takeover defences. In evaluating the Chinese...
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shareholders and creditors. Hence, if the Commission choses to go down this route it might end up with a comprehensive regulation …
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The European Union (EU) has been debating for several years whether to change from the legal capital regime as regulated under the Second Company Law Directive to a solvency test regime as applied in the US, for example. Based on an analysis of direct compliance costs and capital maintenance...
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The importance of protection of the rights of shareholders has been acknowledged by the Court of Justice of the European Union in several decisions. The protection of shareholder rights is routinely linked to more than one economic freedom guaranteed by the Treaty on the Functioning of the...
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and must (as MiFID II as a whole) be read in conjunction with Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 “on markets in financial …
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