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Fractionalizing Investment Securities: Using FinTech to Expand Financial Inclusion

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Steven L. Schwarcz

High-End Securities Regulation

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William W. Clayton

More JoMo Less FoMo: The Case for Voluntary Disclosure of Uncertain Information in Securities Regulation

Securities regulation is one of the most harmonized fields of business law. Observing disclosures about cross-border transactions between public corporations traded in the United States and the European Union seems...

11 January 2022

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When the Means Undermine the Ends: The Leviathan of Securities Law and Enforcement in Digital-Asset Markets

The famous quote from Machiavelli’s The Prince states that ‘in the actions of all men, and especially of princes Although the largest increase...

21 October 2021

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Schrödinger’s Hacker: Insider Trading and Data Breaches

Data breaches are increasingly common in our world. While computers and the Internet have created new opportunities to collect, store, and transmit information, they have also created new vulnerabilities. Data...

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Eric C. Chaffee

Voluntary Disclosure for Primary Securities Offerings

Mandatory disclosure is a foundation of modern securities law, both in the United States and around the world. But is it really necessary? After all, corporate promoters wishing to sell...

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Andrew A. Schwartz

Mapping Enforcement Networks

Many modern problems—money laundering, investor fraud, cryptocurrency abuses—cannot be addressed effectively by solitary agencies. Instead, cross-border and borderless problems require a coordinated response from multiple entities in separate locations with...

13 January 2020

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The Growing Global Appeal of CEO Pay Ratios and Lessons from the US Experience

The CEO pay ratio disclosure rule in the United States (US), adopted as part of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, was the first of a kind. Applying to publicly-held companies,...

27 February 2019

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George S Georgiev

US Law: Crypto is Money, Property, a Commodity, and a Security, all at the Same Time

Although various authorities in the US have repeatedly claimed that they do not wish to over-regulate cryptoassets or to stifle innovation in the space, overlapping regulations produced by a multitude...

7 December 2018

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Equity Crowdfunding in New Zealand

‘Equity crowdfunding’—small Internet-based public securities offerings exempt from the usual regulations for such transactions—is an exciting new source for entrepreneurial finance, and New Zealand has emerged as a worldwide leader...

30 October 2018

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Andrew A. Schwartz

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