"This comprehensive Research Handbook provides an in-depth analysis of the different financial law approaches, legal systems and trends throughout Asia. Considering how reforms following the crises have been critical for the development and growth of the region, this insightful book explores a...

In Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia, standard retail investor protection laws do not apply to special categories of individual investors. Issuers and intermediaries can avoid preparing a prospectus and assessing the suitability of a financial product or investment when financial advice is...

This article examines responses to the Covid-19 crisis in China in the context of emerging corporate bankruptcy law and practice as demonstrated by the Supreme People’s Court selection and publication of eight ‘typical cases’ involving enterprises in financial difficulty during the...

Book review of: Ruiqiao Zhang, A Better Understanding of Common Law Ownership of Trust Property and its Introduction in China Through Comparative Studies. Guangzhou: World Publishing Guangdong Co Ltd, 2019

This chapter in the forthcoming Elgar Encyclopedia of International Economic Law examines the following topics with respect to Australia: trade; investment; financial regulation; and artificial intelligence. Further information about Australia – including the legislative process, the relationship...

The proposed reforms to financial regulation in South Africa, as embodied in the Financial Sector Regulation Bill, (second draft, 10 December, 2014) (‘FSR Bill'), represent the most important reforms to South Africa's financial regulatory architecture since the 1987 de Kock Commission. The...

Regulators in Australia and China are increasingly embracing RegTech. ‘RegTech’ is a contraction of the terms ‘regulatory’ and ‘technology’. The term describes the use of technology to help companies comply with regulation and help regulators perform their regulatory and supervisory...

The trigger for this article was the crisis caused by the collapse of an investment product arranged by Lehman Brothers Asia Limited and marketed in Hong Kong under the name ‘Minibonds'. As outlined in Part III below, this product proved popular among retail investors, many of whom incurred...