Following the outbreak of a regional war, the Israeli capital markets regulator, ISA, introduced a temporary regulatory exception allowing reporting corporations traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) to postpone the filing of their quarterly reports at will. This intervention raises...

The introduction of the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation into EU law provides a unique opportunity to obtain an in-depth understanding of repo markets. Based on the transaction-level data reported under the regulation, this paper presents an overview and key facts about the euro area...

Der Sammelband enthält die Schriftfassung der Vorträge zur Tagung »Elektronische Aktien«, die anlässlich des Gesetzgebungsverfahrens zum Zukunftsfinanzierungsgesetz am 15. Mai 2023 in der Hessischen Landesvertretung in Berlin stattfand.

In addition to regulation of securities market issuers, the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) is also responsible for regulation of those entities that provide the networks, either electronic or physical, that enable the functioning of our securities markets. On February 9, 2022, the...

Regulation A (Reg A) offerings provide an alternative way for companies to raise capital from the public without undergoing the full registration and reporting requirements of a traditional initial public offering. To ensure that investors are fully informed about the investment opportunity, Reg...

Issuer choice proposals argue against mandatory securities regulation because market competition alone purportedly constrains exploitation of public investors in primary offerings. Other legal scholars support a mandatory regime. To date, empirical studies have been unable to resolve whether the...

Since 1975, investment managers in the United States have been permitted to pay excess brokerage commissions on securities transactions and then utilize those excess payments—commonly known as “soft dollars”—to purchase research and related services, thereby subsidizing the investment...

I propose here the psychological attraction theory of financial regulation—that regulation is the result of psychological biases on the part of political participants—voters, politicians, bureaucrats, and media commentators; and of regulatory ideologies that exploit these biases. Some key...

We study the interplay between the redaction of information from regulatory filings and SEC monitoring of the redacting firms. We find that redactions are associated with more intense SEC monitoring, as evidenced by higher incidence of comment letters and a longer letter resolution process. Hand...

The SEC’s efforts to standardize climate disclosure have revealed deep divides among the public and among corporate and securities law scholars about the proper scope and goals of climate disclosure reform. This controversy comes at a time when investor demand for ESG investment products is...

Das Lehrbuch gewährt einen systematischen Überblick über das Schweizer Finanzmarktrecht samt einer ökonomischen Fundierung. Die fünfte Auflage berücksichtigt die jüngsten Entwicklungen der Gesetzgebung sowie die an den Finanzmärkten aufgetretenen Turbulenzen und deren Bewältigung,...

"There is currently no comprehensive scientific study that addresses the problem of financing projects using Distributed Ledger (blockchain) Technology (DLT) that are not themselves embedded in the blockchain ecosystem, particularly in the context of long-term and capital-intensive investments....

Mit der neuen Regulierungsstrategie Sustainable Finance zielt die EU darauf ab, private Kapitalströme in nachhaltige Wirtschaftstätigkeiten zu lenken. Diese weitreichende Regulierung durchdringt als Querschnittsmaterie alle Sektoren des Finanzmarktes und fördert konsequent die Finanzierung...

Unternehmen und Aktionäre sind seit Dekaden Gegenstand intensiver Corporate-Governance-Forschung. Selbstverständliche Prämisse war lange Zeit, dass Kleinaktionäre hohe Transaktionskosten und Kollektivhandlungsprobleme überwinden müssen, um in Kommunikation mit Unternehmen eintreten zu...

Chapter 1: The principle of proportionality as an area of national discretion -- Chapter 2: Options and Discretions under the Capital Requirements Directive IV -- Chapter 3: The application of National Law by the ECB -- Chapter 4: The Corneli Case and the Application of National Law by the...

Mit der Verordnung über Märkte für Kryptowerte (MiCAR) und der Verordnung über eine Pilotregelung für auf der Distributed-Ledger-Technologie basierende Marktinfrastrukturen (DLT-Pilotregelung) hat die Europäische Union ein unionsweit einheitliches Regime zur Regulierung der Ausgabe von und...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Crowdfunding and 'Disintermediation' -- Chapter 3. Promises and Limitations of Market-Based Mechanisms in Crowdfunding -- Chapter 4. Self-Regulation in European Crowdfunding Markets -- Chapter 5. The Residual Role of the Law: A Normative Approach to...

In order to explain how the SEC has, in effect, been regulating by enforcement and to illustrate the problems with this approach while advocating for a legislative response, this article is divided into five parts (and a conclusion). Part one of this article offers a brief and high-level...

The following article adapts and consolidates two comment letters submitted last spring by a group of twenty-two professors of finance and law on the SEC’s proposed climate change disclosure rules. The professors reiterate their recommendation that the SEC withdraw its proposal as legally...

To debate at present whether public corporation Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting is important or necessary or whether it should be mandatory rather than voluntary is to engage with a past to which we cannot return. Our global climate crisis is real and intensifying, and for...

Wirecard, Adler & Co.: Das Aufkommen von Leerverkaufsattacken hat zu einer lebhaften Diskussion über deren rechtliche Zulässigkeit im Marktmissbrauchsrecht geführt. Die Untersuchung beantwortet die spannende Frage, unter welchen Voraussetzungen das Phänomen aktivistischer Leerverkäufer als...

Der Siegeszug von Indexfonds stellt eine Herausforderung für die Corporate Governance von Publikumsgesellschaften dar. Auf Basis umfangreicher eigener Datenauswertungen dokumentiert die Arbeit zunächst den Bedeutungsgewinn passiver Vermögensverwalter in den Beteiligungsstrukturen....

Das Werk untersucht die Strafbarkeit der Marktmanipulation gem. § 119 WpHG unter dem ab 2016 geltenden europäischen Marktmissbrauchsregime. Die durch europäische Normen bewirkten Änderungen der Strafbarkeit werden zusammenhängend untersucht. Im Rechtsvergleich mit anderen EU-Ländern zeigt...

Die Aktiengesellschaft soll private Ersparnisse in dauerhaft gebundenes, unternehmerisches Anlagekapital transformieren. Zugleich erlaubt die Börsennotierung eine beliebig kurzfristige Anlage in unternehmenstragende Gesellschaften. Vor diesem Hintergrund bestehen in Rechtswissenschaft,...

Clearinghouses are systemic nodes in financial markets that handle trillions of dollars’ worth of transactions. Yet, these critical market infrastructures stand on fragile foundations. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act of 2010, the sweeping financial reform that followed the 2008 financial...

The SEC has long taken a hands-off approach to private markets. Instead of direct regulation, the SEC has used investor access restrictions to create high-end contracting environments where investors (in theory) have the resources needed to fend for themselves. But in early 2022, this hands-off...