infonet-economy

This chapter examines the unique features of the rescue of UBS, Switzerland's largest bank, by the Swiss Confederation and the Swiss National Bank in the particular circumstances of the financial crisis culminating with the failure of Lehmann Brothers in September 2008. It analyses the particular mix of tools used for that purpose, including a capital injection of CHF 6 billion...

Les travaux de la Journée de droit bancaire et financier du 11 novembre 2009 se sont inscrits dans trois larges débats qui continuent d'occuper les autorités et les acteurs du marché. L'industrie suisse des fonds alternatifs ne sait pas encore à quelles conditions la future directive européenne sur les gestionnaires de fonds d'investissement alternatifs lui permettra d...

Article 3 deals with the notion and definition of intermediated securities. The commentary discusses inter alia the legal characterisation of intermediated securities as a new legal type of asset subject to its own regime.

This article addresses the question whether the provision of the 2009 UNIDROIT Convention on Substantive Rules for Intermediated Securities (or Geneva Securities Convention) interfers in the relationship between an issuer and its shareholders or bondholders. The question is central to many questions of corporate law and corporate governance. The article concludes that, except to the...

Augmenting 3D virtual environments (3DVEs) with additional abstract information, with different data types (such as numbers, texts, images and videos) amplifies and enhances the user's spatial cognition and understanding of geometrical objects in order to perform specific tasks which require both abstract information and a 3D scene. Many interactive information visualization...