A Beginner's Guide to the City's Financial Markets

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 236-246 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Corporate Finance ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Mortgage Backed Securities ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Topical Area

AbstractThis article, by Daniel Hayter of Bloomberg Law, is based on a series of seminars presented to legal information professionals during 2007–2008. It includes a guide to corporate finance and methods of raising money in the capital markets. The author also describes the topical area of mortgage-backed securities.

The Capital Market Authority Effectiveness in the Regulation of Financial Markets perspectives from the financial sector actors

2012 ◽  
Vol 02 (11) ◽  
pp. 15-24
Author(s):  
Charles Kombo Okioga
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Financial Market ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Financial Regulation ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Financial Market Regulation ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
New Business

Capital Market Authority in Kenya is in a development phase in order to be effective in the regulation of the financial markets. The market participants and the regulators are increasingly adopting international standards in order to make the capital markets in sync with those of developed markets. New products are being introduced and new business lines are being established. The Capital Markets Authority (Regulator) is constantly reviewing existing regulations and recommending changes to regulate the market properly. Business lines and activities are being harmonized by market participants to provide a one stop solution in order to meet the financial and securities services needs of the investors. The convergence of business lines and activities of market intermediaries gives rise to the diversity of a firm’s business operations to meet multiplicity of regulations that its activities are subject to. The methodology used in this study was designed to examine the relationship between capital markets Authority effective regulation and the performance of the financial markets. The study used correlation design, the study population consisted of 30 employees in financial institutions regulated by Capital Markets Authority and 80 investors. The study found out that effective financial market regulation has a significant relationship with the financial market performance indicated by (r=0.571, p<0.01) and (r=0.716, p≤0.01, the study recommended a further research on the factors that hinder effective financial regulation by the Capital Markets Authority.

scholarly journals Interdependence of stock exchange indices from leading capital markets: USA, Germany and Japan Stock Market

Bizinfo Blace ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-28
Author(s):  
Milena Marjanović ◽  
Ivan Mihailović ◽  
Ognjen Dimitrijević
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Impulse Response Function ◽  
The United States ◽  
Causality Test ◽  
Vector Autoregressive ◽  
Equilibrium Relationship ◽  
The Us

In the context of globalization, due to the accelerated process of economic integration of countries and financial markets, the interdependence of the world's leading financial markets is more than obvious. This paper investigates the interdependence of stock exchange indices from leading capital markets in the world: USA, European Union and Asia. Our intention is to determine the direction of causality between the observed capital markets, as well as whether and in what way shocks in one market are transmitted to other markets. Research methodology includes stationarity testing, the existence of cointegration, the application of the Vector Autoregressive Model (VAR) which is complemented by the Granger causality test and the Impulse Response Function (IRF) analysis. The results of the research are as follows. Johansen's cointegration test showed that there is no long-term equilibrium relationship between the observed markets, while Granger's test showed that there is mutual causality between the capital markets of Germany and the United States. As for the Japanese index, previous events in Germany and the United States are statistically significant, but previous events on the Tokyo Stock Exchange cannot explain movements in Germany and the United States. According to the results of the IRF analysis, shocks that may occur in the US market have an almost identical impact on all observed markets. On the other hand, disturbances on the Japanese market are not transmitted to the German and American market, i.e. remain in Japan.

Corporate Governance and Accountability in the Age of Multilevel Governance in Turkey

2019 ◽  
pp. 117-139
Author(s):  
Gülşah Atağan
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Multilevel Governance ◽  
Governance Environment ◽  
Commercial Code ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Turkish Commercial Code ◽  
Legal Infrastructure

Corporate governance and accountability are getting more and more important both for world and Turkish economies thanks to increasing competitiveness conditions among companies. Applications of corporate governance principles can show differences from country to country. In Turkey, The Capital Markets Board issued corporate governance principles in 2003 to improve the corporate governance environment and integrate the Turkish capital market with global financial markets. The board has also adopted these principles in 2005 and made them final. The new Turkish Commercial Code is based on corporate governance principles. The new Turkish Commercial Code constitutes the legal infrastructure for corporate governance practices.

Financial markets as commensurating machines

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-565
Author(s):  
Barbara Kuchler
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Capital Flows ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Financial Assets ◽  
Financial Instruments ◽  
Black Scholes ◽  
Derivatives Markets

Ever since the crisis of 2008, the dynamism and self-referentiality of financial markets have puzzled observers. This article argues that this dynamism is the product of a long process of commensuration, by which ever more heterogeneous financial assets and financial instruments have come to be compared with, substituted for, and valuated relatively to one another, and have thereby been condensed into a highly interconnected financial system. This trajectory can be found both in the long-term historical emergence of financial markets from ancient origins and in the more recent transformations of the financial system since the 1970s, including (i) the rise of derivatives markets, and (ii) the rise of capital markets as against bank-intermediated capital flows. The rise of derivatives markets was triggered by the commensuration of basic securities (such as stock, bond) and derivatives (such as options, futures), established by the Black-Scholes-Merton theory of option pricing. The rise of capital markets was rooted in the commensuration – and hence, competition and substitution – of bank products (such as loans, deposits) and non-bank products (capital market securities).

scholarly journals The Legal Information Needs of Women Who Experience Online Harassment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn McKay ◽  
Victoria James
Keyword(s):  
Information Search ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Online Harassment ◽  
Search Behaviour ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Information Professionals

Women experience various forms of harassment online that threaten their safety, their well-being, and their ability to participate in the digital world. Our job as researchers is threefold: to understand the harassment that women experience online, to learn what information needs women who experience online harassment have  (particularly their legal information needs), and to investigate their information search behaviour.  Only with a solid understanding of these concepts  can we as information professionals begin to  address this phenomenon.

Ceci n’est pas un Capital Markets Union: Re-establishing EU-led financialization

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 248-267
Author(s):  
Nina Haerter
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Financial Products ◽  
Capital Markets Union ◽  
The Many ◽  
Integration Project ◽  
The Eu

In the 11 years since the outbreak of the financial crisis, the EU has introduced many policy initiatives directed at the financial sector, the most recent one being the Capital Markets Union. The official aim is to integrate Europe’s financial markets, fulfilling decades-old wishes for a Single Market for capital. Some scholars have already voiced concerns about different elements of Capital Markets Union since its inception in 2015, but the extent to which this critique was generalizable remained unclear. Through an analysis of policy documents and interview data inspired by the ‘What’s the Problem Represented to be?’-approach, this paper reveals two common threads among the many Capital Markets Union proposals, which are not explicitly acknowledged: a reduction of prudential rules and various forms of incentivizing financial products with public funds. It is therefore argued that Capital Markets Union is not a market integration project (as its name and official narrative suggest), as much as it is the re-establishment of EU-led financialization, following a long tradition of asymmetrical integration in the Union.

The Emergence of a National Capital Market in England, 1710–1880

1993 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moshe Buchinsky ◽  
Ben Polak
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Financial Market ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Regional Markets ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
National Capital

Was eighteenth-century London's financial market linked to domestic real capital markets? When did English capital markets cease to be regionally segmented? We compare London interest rates with annual registered property transactions in Middlesex and in West Yorkshire. This evidence, though tentative, suggests that London financial markets were weakly linked to local real capital markets in the mid-eighteenth century. By the late eighteenth century those links were strong. Regional markets were still segmented in the mid-eighteenth century but were integrated by the time of the Napoleonic War.

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