In recent years, special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) have quickly emerged as a popular new asset class for international investors as well as a favourable listing option for financiers and entrepreneurs across the world as an alternative to traditional IPOs. The global SPAC transaction...

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the growth of digital economy and fintech companies, as more people tend to use online or APP-based financial services. This article discusses the regulation of fintech businesses during the pandemic, by using Ant Group as an example, when Chinese regulators...

This article discusses and analyses the latest capital markets law reform in China, which involves the launch of the star market (sci-tech innovation board) at the Shanghai Stock Exchange as well as the introduction of the “registration-based” IPO regime to replace the previous...

This paper analyses China's latest reform of its capital markets law and securities regulation, especially the IPO and listing rules. It focuses on the new registration-based IPO system by making some comparison with the original approval-based IPO regime

Recent years have witnessed the rapid rise of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) in the United States (US) and globally, as the annual amount of SPAC deals reaching $157 billion in 2020. In September 2021, Singapore Exchange decided to accept the public listing of SPACs on its...