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How to disclose conflicts of interest under the Market Abuse Regulation

After more than five years of investigations, German prosecutors stopped proceedings regarding a short selling attack and the accusation of market manipulation against speculative investor Carson Block. (See also the...

18 March 2022

Marcel Vollmershausen

Conflict of Interest in Investor-paid Credit Ratings

After the 2008 global financial crisis, most of the criticism about credit rating agencies (CRAs) has been revolving around the conflict of interest inherent to their issuer-paid business model: The...

8 March 2022

Nima Fazeli

Conflicts of Interest and Procedural Coordination of Group Insolvencies

The outbreak of COVID-19 and the subsequent drastic governmental measures to curb the contagion have affected many businesses, small and large. It may be too early to fully grasp its...

13 May 2020

Ilya Kokorin

One Duty to All: The Fiduciary Duty of Impartiality and Stockholders’ Conflict of Interest

The typical structure of corporations with multiple classes of stock consists of multiple classes of preferred stock and one or more types of common stock. These structures are most commonly...

28 November 2019

Shachar Nir

Fiduciary Principles in Banking Law

When are banks fiduciaries of their customers and clients? This question is of more than theoretical interest given the organizational structure of modern financial institutions and the broad-ranging functions they...

6 August 2018

Andrew Tuch

Corporate Governance Codes and Groups: In Search of Best Practices for Group Governance

The governance of corporate groups presents a number of special issues if the ambition is to integrate the group’s activities to some extent, either by coordinating the activities of the...

28 March 2018

Karsten Engsig Sørensen

Dániel Gergely Szabó

Analysts’ Advice on IPOs and Regulations: An Analysis of US and European Markets

The impact of regulations, salutary or otherwise, on the behavior of affected agents is of special interest to financial economists. Since the turn of the century, the regulatory environment for...

Do Asset Managers and Banks Control Share Voting Rights on Your Money?

The corporate governance spotlight, at least in some circles, has often been on directors and shareholders. Today, the classic problems of some holding ‘other people’s money’, or the ‘separation of...

5 June 2017

Ewan McGaughey

The Powerful Private Regulator and the Effects of Conflicts of Interest

The 2008 financial crisis revived discussion and interest in the role that regulatory capture has played, both in the dynamics that led to the crisis and in the design of...

7 May 2017

ProMarket Writers

How to disclose conflicts of interest under the Market Abuse Regulation

Conflict of Interest in Investor-paid Credit Ratings

Conflicts of Interest and Procedural Coordination of Group Insolvencies

One Duty to All: The Fiduciary Duty of Impartiality and Stockholders’ Conflict of Interest

Fiduciary Principles in Banking Law

Corporate Governance Codes and Groups: In Search of Best Practices for Group Governance

Analysts’ Advice on IPOs and Regulations: An Analysis of US and European Markets

Do Asset Managers and Banks Control Share Voting Rights on Your Money?

The Powerful Private Regulator and the Effects of Conflicts of Interest

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