The course aims to allow the student to acquire knowledge of the discipline of financial instruments, starting from the understanding of the basic principles of the financial market. The scope will be extended to all regulatory sub-sectors (brokerage; trading systems; listed companies) keeping in mind especially the perspective of the action of private subjects, urging the student to familiarize himself with the categories, dynamics and institutions in this regard typical (such as brokerage firms, collective investment schemes, market management companies, supervisory authorities). After an introduction that will cover the principles of the regulation of intermediaries and trading venues, the course will focus more specifically on the illustration of financial instruments, investigating their type. Next, we will first examine the rules relating to the solicitation of public in the initial placement and then the rules concerning the circulation of financial instruments in the secondary market. In this regard, the discipline of listed companies will be analyzed in detail. At the end of the course, students will be able to know the regulatory framework within which transactions on financial instruments take place.
- The needs of the market system and the reasons for its regulation - Institutes and institutions - Intermediaries: Investment Firms; UCITS managers; The investment services - Financial products and financial instruments. Stocks, bonds and other financial instruments - The regulated market and the other trading venues - The solicitation of public and the regulation of the prospectus - The takeover bid - The regulation of issuers. Principles - Corporate information - The transparency of the corporate ownership - The shareholders’ rights - Corporate governance: management and control of public corporations
Cases study and other materials will be uploaded into e-learning classroom (moodle) during the class
