Modern professional financial organizations have been inevitably subject to conflict of interest problems. The emergence of the Chinese Wall has been an innovation which has provided a convenient, if not an always successful, solution to these problems. Chinese Walls are designed to attain a...

The Australian market manipulation law has been amended with a view to improving its efficacy. Amongst the major amendments is the removal of the term quot;intentquot; from the wording of the relevant provisions. This article argues that despite the change, the intent element is still to be...

The aim of this article is to examine the financial regulatory regimes in common law jurisdictions and based upon the results of such examination, set out reform proposals for China. The reforms undertaken in common law countries, including the US, the UK and Australia, are discussed and sorted...

In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008, shadow banking has been widely identified as one of the major sources of financial instability, and its regulation has become the subject of much international debate. Existing studies, however, have focused on advanced economies, such the US...

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Shareholder inspection rights allow a shareholder to access the relevant documents of the company in which they hold an interest, so as to address the problem of information asymmetry and reduce the agency costs inherent in the corporate structure. While Chinese corporate governance and American...

This paper conducts the first comprehensive and systematic empirical analysis of all relevant insider trading cases in China since the birth of Chinese securities markets in the early 1990s and till middle 2017, shedding important light on the way in which China's insider trading law has been...

On 24 April 2018, after five years of consultation and deliberation, Hong Kong formally introduced new listing rules to allow the listing of companies with the dual class share structure, also known as weighted voting rights (“WVR”), under which a special class of shareholders' voting rights...