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WP 2011-07 : Elke Vandendriessche : Fraud-on-the-market: een causaliteitstheorie inzake beleggersverliezen The possibility to obtain compensation for investor losses has gained substantial importance and attention in recent years, since capital markets across Europe have increasingly attracted smaller investors who have substituted traditional savings products offered by the banks for more risk-bearing financial products traded on financial markets. As a consequence of the internet-bubble at the end of the 1990s and recently the worldwide financial crisis in 2008-09, many investors suffered considerable investment losses, causing legal practice to consider whether and to what extent investor losses can be recovered from financial institutions, intermediaries, issuers and other market participants. Reported case law however shows that investors are struggling to obtain compensation for their claims.
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Parlementair Document 53K1715 Wetsontwerp tot wijziging van de wet van 2 november 2010 betreffende de deelneming van de Belgische Staat in de naamloze vennootschap "European Financial Stability Facility" en het verlenen van de Staatswaarborg aan de door deze vennootschap uitgegeven financiële instrumenten.
When a country’s banking sector becomes more linked to banks abroad, does it get more or less prone to a banking crisis? In other words, should cross-border banking linkages be welcomed? Or should they be approached with caution or perhaps even suppressed in some way? The recent global financial crisis has illustrated quite dramatically that increased financial linkages across borders can have a ‘dark side’: they can make it easier for disruptions in one country to be transmitted to other countries and to mutate into systemic problems with global implications. But financial cross-border linkages may also benefit economies in various ways. They can provide new funding and investment opportunities, contributing to rapid economic growth, as witnessed in many countries in the early part of the 2000s.
Cross-Border Banking Linkages: Good or Bad for Banking Stability? | A blog by Asli Demirguc-Kunt
Bankers, lobbyists and lawmakers from Wall Street to Washington scrambled to dissect, analyze and react to a leaked proposal for one of the most controversial elements of the Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law: the "Volcker rule." Billions of dollars are at stake for big banks, which have been working for months to shape the rule aimed at curbing risky trading activities that played a part in the financial crisis. The latest frenzy erupted late Wednesday when a website posted a 205-page draft of a memo, dated Sept. 30, that laid out critical elements of the proposed Volcker rule. The leak left regulators fuming and opened a new front in Wall Street's battle to soften the blow of the proposed rule. The draft gave banking industry lobbyists several days to discuss it before Tuesday, when the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is scheduled to consider issuing a version for public comment. The response came quickly.
The Multibillion-Dollar Leak - WSJ.com
The world over, investors and individuals spend time and energy trying to divine the thinking of central banks in order to anticipate their moves. However, this is not easy; central banks tend to be notoriously cagey. Till not long ago, some deliberately shrouded their thinking in secrecy, denying the private sector opportunities to gain better understanding of their policy decisions. Recall Alan Greenspan's famous, 'If you understood me clearly, then you must have misheard.' More recently, however, central banks have been moving toward greater transparency. For two reasons.
Transparency pays for central banks:Myth n Reality:Mythili Bhusnurmath's blog-The Economic Times
Stern on Finance - New York University
Stern on Finance is a site dedicated to the understanding of financial markets, financial institutions, and how they interact with the economy. It is maintained by the faculty of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. This site is developed by Professor Thomas Philippon from the Finance Department of the Stern School of Business. The goal of the site is to provide a long term perspective on financial markets. This is not a news web site.Compliance
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