Journal of Investment Compliance: Volume 22 Issue 1

Foreign direct investment rules in selected European countries – an overview: This article was drafted in June 2020 and was correct at the time of writing.

Geoffrey P. Burgess, Timothy McIver, Philippe Tenglemann, Rosanne Lariven, Andrea Pomana, Jan Schoberwalter, Edoardo Troina

To provide an overview of the national foreign direct investment (“FDI”) screening mechanisms in place across Europe including in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain…

Highlights of the new PRC securities law

TieCheng Yang, Yang Chen, Scarlett Zhang, Virginia Qiao, Zhenyu Wang, Shuozhu Zheng

To introduce the Securities Law of the People's Republic of China (the “Securities Law 2019”) revised on 28 December 2019, and provide a detailed analysis on its key implications…

US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) expands accredited investor definition

Sara Adler, Joel I. Greenberg, William G. LeBas, Ellen Fleishhacker

To explain amendments to the definition of “accredited investor” approved by the SEC in August 2020 and to describe the impact of the changes.

Holding ABS is still tricky: the EU securitisation regulation and its UK equivalent: This article was correct at the time it was written in October 2020.

Christian Parker, Arun Srivastava, Paul Severs, Cameron Saylor

To highlight that the risk retention rules associated with the holding of securitization investments, commonly thought to apply only to the sponsors and manufacturers of…

SEC adopts offering reforms for BDCs and registered closed-end funds and issues a temporary exemptive order

Michael Rosella, David Hearth, Vadim Avdeychik, Ryan Johnson

To analyze and identify the key findings from the April 8, 2020, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the “SEC”) recently approved rule amendments (“Adopted Rules”) extended…

China issues new cybersecurity review measures

Lester Ross, Kenneth Zhou

To describe and analyze the implications of the new Measures (the “Measures”) for Cybersecurity Review jointly promulgated on April 27, 2020 by twelve Chinese government…

China investment policy – ensuring the mice will be caught

Ian K. Lewis, Mirror Zhou, Elfie J.Y. Wang

This article analyses China’s attempts at economic revival, which, starting with the Foreign Investment Law, were under way before COVID-19 but which were given extra impetus by…

Do agency conflicts between managers and shareholders affect corporate risk management and financial performance of Saudi firms?

Lamia Jamel, Hanadi Eid Albogami, Mazen Abduljalil Abdulaal, Nuha Ahmed Aljohani

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of agency conflicts between managers and shareholders on corporate risk management and financial performance of Saudi firms…

The profitability of trading strategies from sharia-compliant and conventional banks in the GCC: a comparative study

Hesham I. AlMujamed

The purpose of this research was to examine the effectiveness of filter rules and investigate the weak form of the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) on sample shares of…

Cryptocurrency bubble risk and the FOMC announcements during COVID-19 black swan event

Anis Jarboui, Emna Mnif

After the COVID-19 outbreak, the Federal Reserve has undertaken several monetary policies to alleviate the pandemic consequences on the markets. This paper aims to evaluate the…