Please note! Course description is confirmed for two academic years, which means that in general, e.g. Learning outcomes, assessment methods and key content stays unchanged. However, via course syllabus, it is possible to specify or change the course execution in each realization of the course, such as how the contact sessions are organized, assessment methods weighted or materials used.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
The aim of the course is to get acquainted with the regulative framework for securities and financial markets and to gain an understanding of the cooperation between legal and business economic factors affecting various forms of corporate finance. Among the practical objectives of the course there are various skills of market related corporate finance, such as an ability to evaluate the influence of legal rules for the choice of optimum forms of corporate finance and skills to produce and interpret information provided in legal rules for securities markets.
Credits: 6
Schedule: 14.01.2021 - 22.02.2021
Teacher in charge (valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022): Matti Rudanko
Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Matti Rudanko
Contact information for the course (valid 21.12.2020-21.12.2112):
Responsible teacher: Matti Rudanko, prof. emer. (matti.rudanko@aalto.fi)
CEFR level (applies in this implementation):
Language of instruction and studies (valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022):
Teaching language: English
Languages of study attainment: English
CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD
Content
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
The contents of the course include legal rules of listing, disclosure duties of issuers of securities, legal duties related to public bids, regulation of insiders and market abuse and the customer relationships of investment service firms. Also green finance and sustainability as well as financial technology (Fintech) and its implications to law are discussed.
Applies in this implementation:
In the
course, we will get acquainted with the role of regulation in financial
markets, especially its impact on the markets as one of the market mechanisms. Our
focus will be in observing how regulation aims at promoting its main
objectives, ensuring smooth and effective functioning of the markets and
investor protection – and how these goals are achieved in practice.Our main
goal is to understand market mechanism by the help of examples from most
general everyday presence of regulation in the markets, like disclosure and insider
rules, as well as from more sophisticated special phenomena regulated in law. These
observations should also enhance our practical skills as actors in financial
markets, e.g. by facilitating “financial literacy” to understand financial
reporting and other market information. Topics discussed include securities
markets, banks, investment firms and many others. And, perhaps most
importantly, there is – literally –a vital interest of being aware of the current
status of sustainable finance, as it is reflected in regulation.
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Essay (individual or group) and presentation (individual or group), 40 %
Class activity, 10 %
Exam, 50 %
OR
Exam, 100 %
Applies in this implementation:
The course is
completed as follows:1. Lectures 20
hours.Acceptable
completion of lectures can replace one exam question. Lectures can be completed
by a lecture examination or by a separately agreed case analysis, which the
student gives at the lectures in addition to following the lectures. The
lecture examinations are held on the second last and last lectures.2. Exam.
The course will
be held as remote meetings on this MyCourses platform using the Zoom meeting
tool. No face-to-face meetings will be held.More detailed
information on the course and structure of the course will be added soon.These websites
will be completed until the beginning of the course (and beyond). You should
follow the development of the pages (which can be a bit slow at first) - and
contact me to give content and implementation tips and to find out the issues
related to completing the course: matti.rudanko@aalto.fi.
Workload
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Lectures 16 h
Seminar 4 h
Exam 3 h
Independent work 137
OR
Lectures 16 h
Exam 3 h
Independent work 141
Applies in this implementation:
1. Lectures 20 hours. Acceptable completion of lectures can replace one exam question. Lectures can be completed by a lecture examination
or by a separately agreed case analysis, which the student gives at the lectures in addition to following the lectures.
The lecture examination is held on the second last and last lecture.
2. Exam.Alternatively, you can complete the exam by writing an essay of 10 to 15 pages on a topic in the course area.
More information on how to take the lecture exam and the exam is given at the beginning of the course.
The case study replacing the lecture examination and the essay replacing the exam are assessed by applying the rubric
used in the assessment of the master's thesis (see the section Assessment of performances).
Lectures are not compulsory, but completing a course without lectures is likely to increase the workload of self-study
more than the time specified for lectures. It takes more than 3 hours to complete the exam with an essay, but the total workload
may be reduced because the time for self-study (and essay writing) is usually shorter than the total number of hours calculated
for self-study and the exam.
DETAILS
Study Material
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Veil, Rüdiger: European Capital Markets Law, 2017.
Applies in this implementation:
Here are some hints of what could be of main interest in the textbook
(Veil, European capital markets law) when preparing for the final exam.
You can focus on these and skip the rest of the book (the figures
refer to the contents of the book, i.e. the chapters, sub-chapters and
sections etc.) :- § 2 (Concept and aims of regulation) , § 7
Capital markets, § 12 I and II (Sanctions), § 13 (Insider dealing): III
Concept, IV Prohibitions and VI Sanctions, § 14 Market manipulation: I,
II and IV (Prohibitions) and VII (Sanctions), § 15 Short selling, § 17
Prospectus: IV Sanctions, § 19 Disclosure of inside information: I, III
and V Sanctions, § 24 Takeover law, § 26 IV especially disclosure
obligations on conflicts of interests.Even the mentioned
chapters should be read in a "structural" way: the systematic outlines
(not the details) and market structures are important. And in general,
the national legislations and supervisory systems can be skipped.
Substitutes for Courses
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Substitutes course 32E11100 Legal aspects of Finance.
Prerequisites
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
Principles of Business Law (Yritysjuridiikan perusteeti 32A00130) or similar.
Registration for Courses
Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:
In Weboodi.
Applies in this implementation:
Alternatively, you can complete the exam by writing an essay of 10 to 15 pages on a topic in the course area.
The topic of the essay can be suggested by yourself or defined together. The essay is structured by subheadings and the informationobtained from the sources is separated from the own conclusions and reflection by citations, and a list of sources is appended
to the end of the essay. You can use the exam book and other material to be announced during the course or added to the website
as sources, but you can also search for the sources yourself.
More information on how to take the lecture exam and the exam is given at the beginning of the course.
SDG: Sustainable Development Goals
8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
FURTHER INFORMATION
Details on the schedule
Applies in this implementation:
Date
Meeting
Subject
Thu 14 Jan
lecture 1
Introduction
Market
structuresRegulation
Tue 19 Jan
lecture 2
Regulation
as a market mechanismThu 21 Jan
lecture 3
Sustainable
financeFintech and
blockchainBanking disruptions
Tue 26 Jan
lecture 4
Investment
firmsInvestment
productsThu 28 Jan
lecture 5
Heidi Lumme: Presentation on derivatives markets
Customer
relations of investment firmsInvestors’
dutiesMarketplaces
Tue 2 Feb
lecture 6
Disclosure
dutiesProspectus
Regular
disclosure obligationThu 4 Feb
lecture 7
Ongoing
disclosure obligationMarket
abuse: insider rules and market manipulationTue 9 Feb
lecture 8
Business
secrets and disclosure and insider rulesThu 11 Feb
lecture 9
Omar Khary and Valtteri Heikkala: presentation on hedge funds
Investor
remediesDamages
Tue 16 Feb
lecture 10
Lecture
examPublic
bidsMandatory
bidThu 18 Feb
Lecture
11Lecture
examBehavioral
law and economics