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The Regulation of Crowdinvesting under the Greek Securities Laws

The financial crisis in Greece has vastly affected the Greek banking system, and hence, the financing opportunities of domestic entrepreneurs and companies. Against this background, on 1 September 2016, the...

23 March 2017

Konstantinos Serdaris

Market Building and the Capital Markets Union: Addressing Information Barriers in the SME Funding Market

The Capital Markets Union (‘CMU’) is one of the EU Commission’s flagship projects. It is a policy initiative that is meant to be about market building. It is supposed to...

21 March 2017

Pierre Schammo

A New Era for the UK's Capital Markets? FCA Publishes Proposals to Reform the UK's Capital Markets and IPO Process

The FCA has published various proposals to reshape and enhance the UK's primary markets. The publications form a key part of the FCA's wider work on improving the efficiency...

19 March 2017

Hogan Lovells

The New Prospectus Regulation: a Missed Opportunity?

One of the key actions of the Capital Markets Union (hereinafter ‘CMU’) was the revision of the Prospectus Directive.On 7 December 2016, the European Parliament, the...

16 March 2017

Assonime

Conference Report: ‘The Future Framework for European Capital Markets – Law and Finance’

When European banks were hit by financial calamity, a lack of alternative funding arrangements deepened the crisis. Stronger European capital markets would have changed that picture, because savers and borrowers...

23 February 2017

Thom Wetzer

A Place of Their Own: Crowds in the New Market for Equity Crowdfunding

For over eighty years, US security laws have focused on mandating disclosures to protect investors. The efficacy of this strategy has been hotly debated for decades. Equity crowdfunding as it...

14 November 2016

Seth C. Oranburg

Private Enforcement of Capital Markets Regulation

On March 30, 2011, the Austrian Supreme Court (7 Ob 77/10i) decided that the corporate law rules on the prohibition of repayment of capital, the purchase of own...

14 October 2016

Wolf Theiss

The Consequences of Global IFRS Adoption: What Have We Learnt?

Over a decade has passed since the EU mandated International Financial Reporting Standards (‘IFRS’) for all companies listed on the main European stock exchanges in 2005. Several other countries have...

11 May 2016

Emmanuel T De George

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Lakshmanan Shivakumar

ICYMI: "EU Capital Markets Union: First Status Report"

The European Commission (EC) is today taking stock of the progress made in the first six months since the adoption of the Capital Markets Union (CMU) Action Plan and it is...

26 April 2016

OBLB Editors

The Economics of Disclosure and Financial Reporting Regulation: Evidence and Suggestions for Future Research

In our paper “The Economics of Disclosure and Financial Reporting Regulation: Evidence and Suggestions for Future Research”, Peter Wysocki and I review the empirical literature on the economic...

10 April 2016

Christian Leuz

The Regulation of Crowdinvesting under the Greek Securities Laws

Market Building and the Capital Markets Union: Addressing Information Barriers in the SME Funding Market

A New Era for the UK's Capital Markets? FCA Publishes Proposals to Reform the UK's Capital Markets and IPO Process

The New Prospectus Regulation: a Missed Opportunity?

Conference Report: ‘The Future Framework for European Capital Markets – Law and Finance’

A Place of Their Own: Crowds in the New Market for Equity Crowdfunding

Private Enforcement of Capital Markets Regulation

The Consequences of Global IFRS Adoption: What Have We Learnt?

ICYMI: "EU Capital Markets Union: First Status Report"

The Economics of Disclosure and Financial Reporting Regulation: Evidence and Suggestions for Future Research

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