Chinese and Global Financial Integration through Stock Connect

<b>This significant and timely book explores a novel market mechanism Stock Connect which gives mutual market access to Chinese and international investors and provides original analyses and fresh insights.</b>This mechanism could become the new normal in future global financial integration.<br/><br/>By examining this cross-border scheme from a regulatory perspective via a three-tiered analytical framework (investors issuers and regulators) this book unearths the profound implications of Stock Connect to local and global financial markets and the legal impediments to its implementation. It covers a broad range of topics in this cross-boundary investment channel including an overview of four existing connectivity arrangements (Shanghai-Hong Kong Shenzhen-Hong Kong Shanghai-London and China-Switzerland) the uniqueness of these connectivity arrangements investor protection regulations of connect issuers regulatory cooperation and enforcement the impacts on local and global financial markets the implications for the world market connectivity as well as the challenges and future of Stock Connect.<br/><br/>This pioneering study will appeal to a broad range of readers who are interested in the on-going reshaping of international financial systems and China's emerging influence in the international financial order.