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Bank Growth In The Investment Company Industry: Do Guidelines Issued By The Comptroller Of The Currency Compensate For Bank Exclusion From Statutory Provisions Of The Federal Securities Laws Defining "Broker/Dealer" And "Investment Adviser?", Paul A. Caldarelli

Campbell Law Review

Under the current regulatory scheme, banks directly engaged in mutual fund activities are regulated under the federal banking laws by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, whereas bank subsidiaries and non-bank affiliates engaged in mutual fund activities must be registered broker-dealers that are subject to Securities and Exchange Commission regulation under the federal securities laws. The regulatory tools provided to the banking regulators by the federal banking laws were designed to provide for the protection of depositors and for the safety and soundness of the bank. The remedies available under the federal banking laws dealing with violations involving …

The Value Of Public-Notice Filing Under Uniform Commercial Code Article 9: A Comparison With The German Legal System Of Securities In Personal Property, Jens Hausmann

LLM Theses and Essays

In contrast to the public-notice filing system under U.C.C. Article 9, the modern German law of securities in personal property lacks publicity of security interests. The German courts have developed a mesh of priority rules exhaustively described in this analysis. Despite the costs and risks arising under the formal filing system, the U.C.C. accomplishes a preferable balance of interests involved in secured transactions. It assures certainty to creditors about the priority of security interests in particular assets, whereas the German law comprehensively recognizes the debtor’s interest in the secrecy of the transaction and the need for external capital. Regarding the …

An Economic Analysis Of The Potential For Coercion In Consent Solicitations For Bonds, Royce De R. Barondes

Faculty Publications

This Article examines why issuers frequently cannot present bondholders with an offer that draws on collective action problems to force the acceptance of the offer by the bondholders. The analysis is restricted to publicly offered bonds. For a number of reasons, privately placed debt presents fewer opportunities for coercion. A prior business relationship among various purchasers, which facilitates cooperation, may be more likely with respect to privately placed debt. Privately placed debt often has more significant protection for the bondholders than public debt with the same level of seniority

The Bespeaks Caution Doctrine: Revisiting The Application Of Federal Securities Law To Opinions And Estimates, Royce De R. Barondes

Faculty Publications

Disclosure of estimates and opinions, which are often referred to as ‘soft information,‘ has presented a number of difficult issues to courts, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and companies issuing offering materials or required to file periodic reports with the SEC. Although this type of information often consists of projections, historical financial statements also include this type of information to varying degrees. For example, a bank's statement of financial position requires specification of loan loss reserves and is therefore dependent on an assessment of future events (the timing and extent of repayment). Similarly, determination of the timing of a …

Introduction To The Financial System And Securities & Exchange System Reform Act In Japan, Hiroshi Naka, Akio Nakamura, Atsushi Yamashita, Scott Siegler

Washington International Law Journal

This translation of an original Japanese language work, by Hiroshi Naka and Akio Nakamura, both of the Japanese Ministry of Finance, details the reforms of Japan's financial and securities & exchange system made under the recently enacted System Reform Act. The major reforms under the Act include: (1) altering the "Glass Steagall" rule (the separation of securities business and banking business) in Japan so that banks and securities companies can engage in each other's business through their subsidiaries; (2) extending securities regulations to some new types of structured finance; (3) amending public offering provisions and providing new articles for private …

Making America Competitive, Mark J. Loewenstein

Publications

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Benign Restraint: The Sec's Regulation Of Execution Systems, David M. Schizer

Faculty Scholarship

To the handful of traders who founded the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 1792 – and perhaps even to the securities traders of the 1960's – today's securities markets would be virtually unrecognizable. New communications and data processing technologies, the globalization of investment portfolios, and a surge in trading volume have created new needs and possibilities. As a result, revolutionary advances have occurred in the design and performance of execution systems: the technologies (computers, telephones, modems) and formats (auction-based stock exchanges, dealer-based "over-the-counter" markets, computerized single price auctions) that traders use to conduct trades. These advances enable trades on …

Responsibility Of Investment Bankers To Shareholders, Ted J. Fiflis

Publications

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Recent Initiatives In International Financial Regulation And Goals Of Competitiveness, Effectiveness, Consistency And Cooperation, Joel P. Trachtman

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

The purpose of this examination is first, to review the basis for and method of applying U.S. regulation in these functional areas to offshore activities of U.S. persons and to both U.S. and offshore activities of foreign persons, and to understand the differences in approach taken by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Board) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) in interpreting the reach of prescriptive jurisdiction under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (the BHC Act), the Securities Act of 1933 (the Securities Act) and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the …

Bondholder Coercion: The Problem Of Constrained Choice In Debt Tender Offers And Recapitalizations, John C. Coffee Jr., William A. Klein

Faculty Scholarship

The past decade saw the flourishing of risky, high-yield corporate debt, often called "junk" bonds. Too many companies took on too much debt, and the chickens are now coming home to roost as these bonds have begun to default with increasing frequency.The magnitude of the problem is potentially enormous; by one estimate, $318 billion of debt has either defaulted already or trades at yields indicating the market's skepticism that it will be repaid on maturity.

Facing the prospect of default, corporate issuers are seeking to restructure or recapitalize their financial structures at a correspondingly increased pace. The market force driving …

Liquidity Versus Control: The Institutional Investor As Corporate Monitor, John C. Coffee Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

Within academia, paradigm shifts occur regularly, some more important than others. As the takeover wave of the 1980s ebbs, a significant shift now appears to be in progress in the way the public corporation is understood. Above all, the new thinking emphasizes that political forces shaped the modern corporation. While the old paradigm saw the structure of the corporation as the product of a Darwinian competition in which the most efficient design emerged victorious, this new perspective sees political forces as constraining that evolutionary process and possibly foreclosing the adoption of a superior organizational form. Thus, my colleague Professor Mark …

Between Chiarella And Congress: A Guide To The Private Cause Of Action For Insider Trading Under The Federal Securities Laws, Peter J. Henning

Law Faculty Research Publications

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A New Era Of Financial Futures Trading In Germany: Sweeping Changes In The Legal And Business Environment, Friedrich E.F. Hey

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

Trading in futures has increased dramatically in recent years. This is especially true for financial futures. The two main reasons for this phenomenon are: (1) there is a greater need for hedging against price fluctuations; and (2) financial futures trading provides speculators with the opportunity to transform favorable price developments into quick and large profits. This Article examines the recently enacted legislation governing futures trading in the Federal Republic of Germany, distinguishes the new law from the old, and analyzes the impact the new legislation will have on the functioning of the new German futures exchange.

Securities Industry Self-Regulation-Tested By The Crash, Roberta S. Karmel

Faculty Scholarship

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Integration Of Securities Offerings: Obstacles To Capital Formation Remain For Small Businesses, Perry E. Wallace, Jr.

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Destroying The Barriers Between Commercial And Investment Banking: Should Congress Repeal The Glass-Steagall Act?

Washington and Lee Law Review

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"May We Have The Last Dance?" States Take Aim At Corporate Raiders And Crash The Predator's Ball

Washington and Lee Law Review

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State Takeover Laws: A Rebirth Of Corporationlaw?, David K. Millon

Washington and Lee Law Review

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State Takeover Statutes: Constitutionality, Community, And Heresy, Lyman P. Q. Johnson

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Preexisting Relationship Doctrine Under Regulation D: A Rule Without Reason?, David B.H. Martin, Jr., L. Keith Parsons

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Sec Release 1092 On The Investment Advisers Act Of 1940: Applicability Of The Investment Advisers Act To Financial Planners And Other Persons Who Provide Financial Services

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Insider Trading Liability Of Tippees And Quasi-Insiders: Crime Shouldn't Pay, 22 J. Marshall L. Rev. 295 (1988), Robert J. Kuker

UIC Law Review

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Interest Rate And Currency Swaps, Christian Droop

LLM Theses and Essays

This thesis explores the evolution, mechanics, and risks associated with interest rate and currency swaps, key financial instruments in global markets since the late 1970s. Swaps involve the exchange of predetermined payments in the same or different currencies between parties, aiming to leverage their financial capabilities and reduce transaction risks. By 1987, the volume of outstanding swap transactions exceeded $1.1 trillion, highlighting their significance in capital markets..

The thesis aims to present basic swap transactions, describe associated risks, and discuss current efforts to control these risks through regulatory and contractual measures, which focus on New York law. It also examines …

Capital Neutrality And Coordinated Supervision: Lessons For International Securities Regulation From The Law Of International Taxation And Banking, Charles Thelen Plambeck

Michigan Journal of International Law

Part I of this article provides some background on the legal forces which have influenced globalization and internationalization of the world's securities markets. Part II focuses on the international tax law principle of capital neutrality. Fundamentally, the principle of capital neutrality requires that regulations should not unintentionally direct the movement of capital. Part II analyzes the bases and parameters of the principle of capital neutrality, the experiences of international taxation in applying the principle to a globalizing economy, and the possibilities for applying the principle to international securities regulation. Part III focuses on the international banking law principle of coordinated …

Qualitative Standards For Qualified Securities: Sec Regulation Of Voting Rights, Roberta S. Karmel

Faculty Scholarship

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Blue-Sky Merit Regulation: Benefit To Investors Or Burden On Commerce, Roberta S. Karmel

Faculty Scholarship

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Foreign Bank Participation In The United States Capital Markets: A Legal Perspective, Roger M. Zaitzeff

Touro Law Review

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Involuntary Dissolution As A Remedy For Freeze-Outs Of Minority Shareholders: Two West Virginia Statutes, D. Christopher Wells

West Virginia Law Review

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Performance Bonds, Bankers' Guarantees, And The Mareva Injunction, Peter S. O'Driscoll

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

Performance bonds and bankers' guarantees are common features of international sales and construction contracts. They figure prominently in contracts with buyers and employers in the Middle East. In recent years, the amounts represented by these instruments have grown so large that banks have begun to syndicate them in order to limit the exposure of any one bank. With so much at stake, it is imperative that traders, bankers, and lawyers understand the legal implications of performance bonds and bankers' guarantee agreements and the treatment of such agreements by the courts. This Comment will address some of the problems associated with …

The Mechanisms Of Market Efficiency, Ronald J. Gilson

Faculty Scholarship

Of all recent developments in financial economics, the efficient capital market hypothesis ("ECMH") has achieved the widest acceptance by the legal culture. It now commonly informs the academic literature on a variety of topics; it is addressed by major law school casebooks and textbooks on business law; it structures debate over the future of securities regulation both within and without the Securities and Exchange Commission; it has served as the intellectual premise for a major revision of the disclosure system administered by the Commission; and it has even begun to influence judicial decisions and the actual practice of law. In …