Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance: Volume 24 Issue 3

The insurance agents’ intention to make inappropriate product recommendations: Some observations from Taiwan life insurance industry

Lu-Ming Tseng, Yue-Min Kang, Chi-Erh Chung

This case study aim to investigate the impacts of insurance agents’ positive attitude toward inappropriate product recommendations on the insurance agents’ intention to make the…

The efficacy of market abuse regulation in the UK

Brendan John Lambe

The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the efficacy of Financial Services and Markets Act (FMSA) (2000) in deterring illegal insider trading in target companies around the time…

Impact of ethical screening on risk and returns: The case of constructed Moroccan Islamic stock indices

Issam Bousalam, Moustapha Hamzaoui

This paper aims to expand the literature on performance and volatility of Islamic funds and indices in comparison to their conventional unscreened counterparts, by studying the…

Corporate governance mechanisms and audit delay in a joint audit regulation

Mishari M. Alfraih

This paper aims to examine the influence of corporate governance mechanisms on audit delay in companies listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE) in 2013. Kuwait has the unusual…

How the unremunerated reserve requirement by the Bank of Thailand affects IPO underpricing and the long-run performance of IPOs

Kulabutr Komenkul, Dhanawat Siriwattanakul

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the characteristics of the Initial Public Offering (IPO) market, IPO underpricing and the long-run performance of IPOs and to find out…

Estimating defaults in organized security lending markets

Latif Cem Osken, Ceylan Onay, Gözde Unal

This paper aims to analyze the dynamics of the security lending process and lending markets to identify the market-wide variables reflecting the characteristics of the stock…