Jens-Hinrich Binder - Böcker

Modern financial systems rely on robust infrastructures to support efficient and resilient markets. Trading venues, clearinghouses, securities depositories, and trade repositories are the building blocks of the financial market architecture. Financial market infrastructures (FMIs) have been central in the post-crisis reform of global and domestic financial markets, with lawmakers closely regulating FMIs in the aftermath of the financial crisis. This book systematically analyses the current regulatory landscape of FMIs, specifically in the areas of trading and post-trading services in financial instruments. The legal regime for FMIs is complex due to the many relevant regulations and implementing measures. The comprehensive and cross-border approach of this book, covering both the EU and the US regimes, supports lawyers in understanding the law relevant to each step of a securities and financial transaction. The dual perspective taken in the book, covering both transactional and institutional aspects, deepens that understanding further. The volume is organized in three main parts introduced by a general discussion on the economic and legal evolution of FMIs. Parts I and II address trading and post-trading infrastructures and services in the securities and derivatives markets. Part III explains contemporary issues and challenges observable across a wide range of activities in both trading and post-trading services.Financial Market Infrastructures fills a void in the literature on FMIs, providing a comprehensive source of reference to the legal and regulatory framework. Trading venues and post-trading services in financial instruments are critical for the modern financial markets, and their economic and systemic relevance is fully analysed in this new work creating a valuable reference source for legal practitioners and scholars working in financial regulation.

In recent years, the longstanding debate between shareholder-oriented and stakeholder-oriented models of corporate governance for large listed, or "public" corporations, has experienced a resurgence. Simultaneously, a wave of new regulations has reshaped the legal landscape, compelling businesses to integrate public objectives - such as environmental protection or the social interests of specific stakeholder groups - into their decision-making processes, which were traditionally driven solely by profitability considerations. Against this background, the book brings together economic, comparative, historical, and doctrinal perspectives of scholars from US and European legal academia.The ongoing discourse regarding the fundamental role of public corporations in economies and society is vivid and rather different, across Europe, and the US. Filling a gap in comparative literature on these themes, this volume further explores commonalities across these varying legal landscapes, while remaining cognizant of distinct, cultural, legal, and economic contexts. Most strikingly, the contributions here point to the European emphasis on stakeholder-oriented regulation, in contrast to the US-American focus on shareholder value. Providing a comprehensive analysis of recent legal developments in this space, this volume serves as an essential theoretical guide to debates around corporate purpose, CSR, and ESG today.

This new commentary analyses, article by article, the two most important regulations on the European banking union: firstly, the Single Supervisory Mechanism with the ECB as the single supervisory authority for major banking institutions; and secondly, the Single Resolution Mechanism with the Single Resolution Fund as the centralized decision-making body in the eurozone.

Jens-Hinrich Binder nimmt rechtstheoretische und rechtsökonomische Aspekte zur Wirkung von Rechtsnormen auf und entwickelt sie zu Vorstudien einer Rechtsetzungslehre für das Kapitalgesellschaftsrecht. Zunächst untersucht er theoretisch, dann historisch-vergleichend die Rechtsentwicklung in Deutschland, England, Frankreich und den USA sowie deren unterschiedliche Regulierungsinstrumente und entwickelt Aussagen zu jeweils strukturimmanenten Funktionsmerkmalen. Dabei entsteht eine Art dynamisches Regulierungsmodell, das eine kontinuierliche Anpassung bestehender Regelprogramme im kooperativen Ausgleich von gesetzlicher und privater Regulierung befürwortet. Ausschlaggebend für die Verteilung der Regelungsverantwortung ist danach die Verteilung hinreichender Information über das zu regelnde Sachproblem zwischen den Ebenen der Regelsetzung und -durchsetzung; den Schlüssel für die Allokation der Regelungsverantwortung bietet die Auswahl der zur Verfügung stehenden Regulierungsinstrumente.

Das Europäische Wirtschaftsrecht und die nationalen Wirtschaftsrechte haben während der Wirtschafts- und Währungskrise in den Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Währungsunion eine Bewährungsprobe durchlaufen. Diese haben sie teilweise nur unter erheblichen ad hoc -Anpassungen und um den Preis von tiefen Einschnitten in überkommene Rechtsgrundsätze bestanden. Der vorliegende Tagungsband versammelt die Perspektive der deutschen und der griechischen Rechtswissenschaft auf diese Vorgänge. Die behandelten Themen reichen von Fragen der Währungspolitik und der Regulierung des Kreditwesens über das öffentliche Wirtschaftsrecht, das Vertrags- und Verbraucherschutzrecht, das Insolvenz- und Sanierungsrecht bis hin zu gesellschafts- und kapitalmarktrechtlichen sowie arbeitsrechtlichen Fragen.