This special volume collects contributions from leading scholars who scrutinize the challenges digital finance presents for the EU internal market and financial market regulation from multiple public policy perspectives. Author contributions aim to provide policy-relevant research and ideas shedding light on the complexities of the digital finance promise. They also offer solid proposals for reform of EU financial services law.

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Corporate financing by mezzanine capital gives rise to various questions in connection with the protection of the company's third-party creditors. The study examines to what extent providers of mezzanine capital are subject to those statutory provisions that impose restrictions on conventional equity investors in the interest of the company's creditors. Furthermore, it examines the relevance of such clauses by which the parties explicitly assign a creditor-protecting function to mezzanine capital.

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Public stock markets are too small. This book is an effort to rescue public stock markets in the EU and the US. There should be more companies with publicly-traded shares and more direct share ownership. Anchored in a broad historical study of the regulation of stock markets and companies in Europe and the US, the book proposes ways to create a new regulatory regime designed to help firms and facilitate people’s capitalism.

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The attribution of knowledge is back again. In the context of the ad-hoc disclosure requirement, it remains one of the most controversial issues in European capital markets law. The relevant provision of Art. 17 MAR is silent as to who within the issuer must possess inside information in order for the ad-hoc publicity obligation to arise. The legal basis has so far been insufficiently examined and scarcely clarified.

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