Regulation of the London Stock Exchange

Share Trading, Fraud and Reform 1914-1945
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-04021-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 164 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

Reihe: Financial History

In 1914, the notion of statutory regulation of trading in shares was anathema to both the Government and the London Stock Exchange. By 1945, a statutory scheme of regulation had been introduced. This book serves to:

- Track the steps by which this outcome came about,

- Explain why the Exchange felt obliged in the process to abandon long-cherished policies,

- Analyse the forces which led to it, and

- Account for the form in which it was implemented.

Throughout the period, the attitudes of both the Stock Exchange and Government were affected by widening interest in share ownership, the increasing tendency for business interests to look to the Exchange for long-term finance, and the increasing challenge of financing the Government’s expenditure. At a disaggregated level, the market was able to respond to changing circumstances taking advantages of opportunities and weaknesses. At an aggregated level, the Exchange was not able to foresee the implications of change or to forestall unfortunate consequences. This exposed the weakness of the criminal justice system and its failure to serve as a deterrent for abuse.

This study, the only book to take full account of the documents held by the National Archives in relation to the Bodkin Committee, examines the stages by which share trading in the United Kingdom came to be a statutorily regulated activity and by which the London Stock Exchange moved from being antagonistic towards public regulation in 1914 to lobbying in 1944 for the new scheme to be implemented.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swinson, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensfinanzen Öffentliches Finanz- und Rechnungswesen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of contents

List of tables

List of charts

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements



Chapter One

Introduction

Chapter Two

Coming to terms with change

Chapter Three

The demand for securities 1914-1945

Chapter Four

The supply of securities 1914-1945

Chapter Five

The Exchange’s marketplace 1914-1945

Chapter Six

Forced into partnership 1914-1918

Chapter Seven

Leave it to the Exchange 1919-1929

Chapter Eight

On the brink of the abyss 1929

Chapter Nine

Managing the Hatry crisis

Chapter Ten

Towards another boom 1930-1936

Chapter Eleven

Negotiating a new partnership 1936-1939

Chapter Twelve

Surviving another war 1939-1945

Chapter Thirteen

Reflections

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Chris Swinson is one of the country's leading experts on corporate accountancy and auditing, acting as an expert witness in litigation concerning auditing negligence, usually in the respect of fraud.