The London Stock Exchange is a vibrant capital market which attracts issuers from all over the world, bringing companies with diverse corporate governance practices and norms into the UK listed landscape. The dominant mode of corporate governance in UK public companies has historically been...

Mandatory bail-in is set to become an important part of any process relating to the resolution of banks and financial institutions. This paper supports the public interest arguments underlying mandatory bail-in but argues that it is necessary to consider how bail-inable debt-holders' interests...

Regulatory regimes for financial benchmarks have been introduced in the wake of benchmark manipulation in a number of non-equities markets. Although such regulatory responses introduce various measures to improve the governance processes relating to the production of financial benchmarks, this...

This article examines the driving forces for European Corporate Governance Regulation (ECGR) and argues that ECGR has moved from a gradual bottom-up approach based on learning from diversity to an approach that blends into harmonised capital markets regulation at EU level. The gradual bottom-up...

The proposed amendments to the EU Shareholders' Rights Directive purport to improve shareholder rights and powers in investee companies. In general, these initiatives provide minority shareholders with confidence in corporate governance and could be useful as a supply-side stimulating measure to...

From the introduction of shareholder engagement as a ‘norm’ for stewardship, the regulatory governance of investment management conduct has been ramping up. As investment funds and asset managers assume control of increasing global assets under management and enjoy significant allocative...

This paper is a chapter of a forthcoming monograph, Regulating the Crypto-economy, to be published by Hart Publishing in the latter half of 2021. The book looks at novel economic activity on permissionless blockchains, many of which taking place on the Ethereum blockchain, as having potential...