Research Catalog

Title

Financial conglomerates and the Chinese wall : regulating conflicts of interest / Harry McVea.

Author

McVea, Harry.

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

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Details

Description

xxii, 278 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Examines how regulators ensure that the growing number of conglomerates are regulated sufficiently strongly to eradicate systemic risks and conflict of interest abuses, yet are flexible enough to allow the benefits of conglomeration to be secured. It looks particularly at the Chinese wall.

Subject

• Holding companies > Great Britain
• Subsidiary corporations > Great Britain
• Conflict of interests > Great Britain
• Insider trading in securities > Law and legislation > Great Britain
• Conflict of interests
• Holding companies
• Insider trading in securities > Law and legislation
• Subsidiary corporations
• Holdinggesellschaft
• Insidergeschäft
• Interessenkonflikt
• Recht
• Tochtergesellschaft
• Financiële instellingen
• Belangenconflicten
• Commercial law
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-269) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Big Bang and Conflicts of Interest and Duty -- 3. Insider Dealing: The Nature of the Problem -- 4. Regulatory Approaches to Insider Dealing in the UK and the USA -- 5. The Chinese Wall -- 6. The Chinese Wall at General Law -- 7. Legislative and Regulatory Approval of Chinese Walls in the USA and the UK -- 8. The Chinese Wall: A Policy Analysis -- 9. Summary and Conclusion -- App. I. Schedule 8: Principles Applicable to Designated Agency's Legislative Provisions -- App. II. Merrill Lynch's Statement of Policy.

ISBN

• 0198257139 (acid-free paper)
• 9780198257134

LCCN

92047415

OCLC

• ocm27265914
• 27265914
• SCSB-1997173

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library