Regulating Investor Protection under EU Law The Unbridgeable Gaps with the U.S. and the Way Forward /

• Main Author: Marcacci, Antonio (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Investment banking.; Securities.; Public finance.; Investments and Securities.; Financial Law/Fiscal Law.

This book analyzes the legal system for the protection of retail investors under the European Union law of investment services. It identifies the regulatory leitmotiv driving the EU lawmaker and ascertains whether and to what extent such a system is self-sufficient, using a set of EU-made and EU-enf...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter One: Towards a European Investor Protection Law
• First Part: The Law on the Books
• Chapter Two: The Evolution of the EU Law of Financial Markets
• Chapter Three: The Relationship Between an Investment Service Provider and a Retail Investor: EU and US compared
• Second Part: The Law in Action
• Chapter Four: Public Enforcement
• Chapter Five: Private Enforcement
• Chapter Six: The Compliance Function as Embedder of the Law-on-the-Book and as Enforcement Frontliner
• Chapter 7. Conclusions: The Unbridgeable Gaps with the US and the Emergence of an Increasingly Self-Sufficient EU Regulatory Investor Protection Law.