This article explores issues from the use of equity swaps by corporate stakeholders under Singapore law. The article accepts that non-disclosure of economic interests might have an impact on market efficiency and corporate governance. To address potential problems, Singapore should consider...

Since the global financial crisis, Asian regulators have strived to curb the misselling of wealth management products by strengthening product disclosure, enhancing suitability assessments and conducting product intervention. However, much less attention has been paid to financial institutions'...

This article examines the effect by imposing higher board independence requirement on private benefit extraction by corporate management or controlling shareholders in Hong Kong and Singapore, which are both international financial centers transplanting the Anglo-American corporate governance...

The purpose of this article is to examine the role of the Securities and Futures Investors Protection Center (SFIPC) in Taiwan in enforcing the duties of directors. To help shareholders or investors pursue a director for breach of company law or securities regulations, Taiwan created the SFIPC,...

This article focus on the genetically modified food and labelling requirement. The relatively new technology raises some concerns over the safety of food containing genetically modified substance. The "substantial equivalent" doctrine, adopted by the U.S., and the "precautionary" doctrine, taken...

The greying of society has become a significant problem in Singapore and many parts of Asia, putting great financial pressure on various aspects of the economy, including the insurance and pension markets. In this article, we generally examine certain key aspect of legal infrastructure in...

This article compares new product intervention rules in Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan for complex structured investment products. Singapore's approach is to improve firms' internal safeguard, while Hong Kong's approach is to require prior authorisation for new unlisted structured investment...

Since the Asian financial crisis of 1997, Hong Kong and Singapore have implemented reforms that promote independence and monitoring competency of the boards of directors of their listed companies. However, with the advent of the financial crisis of 2007/2008, a wave of fraud cases prompts the...

This paper examines regulatory sandboxes in the UK, Singapore and Australia. We find that there is relatively a lower number of applications of the so-called insurTech firms for regulatory sandbox, comparing with application of fintech in other financial sectors. This paper argues that, while...

This paper generally explores legal challenges to Chinese financial institutions in Southeast Asia amidst China's grand ‘One Belt, One Road' plan in 2015 and the establishment of the Association of Southeast Asian Nationals (ASEAN) Economic Community effective in 2016. Banking and finance play...