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 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...

The insertion of a duty of loyalty into the Trust Enterprise Act in 2000 and the Companies Act in 2001 marks the invasion of fiduciary duties into Taiwan law, a long civil law jurisdiction. Unlike common law jurisdictions, such transplantation was prescribed by legislation and only the general...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the liberalization of Taiwan's capital market regarding cross-Taiwan-Strait listing of securities. Taiwan is in an advantageous position to compete with other Asian rivals to attract issuers and capital from China. However, the long political hostility...

This article argues that alternative dispute resolution is not a panacea for settling massive investor complaints. Regulators must create clear and effective conduct of business rules and strengthen the contractual composition of structured products to give investors a better chance of...