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Original Articles

The Geneva Securities Convention and its relevance for China

Pages 284-291 | Published online: 07 May 2015

  • J Benjamin, Interest in Securities: A Proprietary Law Analysis of the International Securities Markets (Oxford University Press, 2000), 68–69.
  • UK Companies Act 2006, ss 768, 770.
  • JS Rogers, “Policy Perspectives on Revised UCC Article 8” (1996) 43 UCLA Law Review 1431, 1442.
  • Benjamin, supra n 1, 20.
  • Global Clearing and Settlement – A Plan of Action (Group of Thirty, 2003).
  • The UNIDROIT Convention on Substantive Rules regarding Intermediated Securities: Further Updated Advice to HM Treasury (Law Com, 2008), [2.7].
  • Benjamin, supra n 1, 23, 26.
  • See analysis of transparent systems below.
  • Supra n 6, [2.11].
  • Ibid, [2.12].
  • Ibid, [2.13].
  • Ibid, [2.14].
  • Benjamin, supra n 1, 52–53.
  • Working Paper regarding So-called “Transparent Systems” (UNIDROIT, 2006 Study LXXVIII – Doc 44), 2.
  • Report of the Transparent Systems Working Group (UNID-ROIT, 2007 Study LXXVIII – Doc 70), 8.
  • Supra n 14, 3.
  • Ibid.
  • Release (US Securities and Exchange Commission, No S7–13-04, 2004), 16.
  • CW Mooney, “Beyond Negotiability: A New Model for Transfer and Pledge of Interests in Securities Controlled by Intermediaries” (1990) 12 Cardozo Law Review 305, 319.
  • Ibid, 320.
  • US Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), § 8–503(a).
  • US UCC, § 8–503(b).
  • US UCC, §§ 8–505, 8–506.
  • Supra n 6, [2.21].
  • UK Companies Act 2006, s 127, UK Uncertificated Securities Regulations 2001 SI 2001/3755, reg 24, displacing UK Law of Property Act 1925, s 53 (1) (c), s 136.
  • Re Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (in administration); Pearson v Lehman Brothers Finance SA [2010] EWHC 2914 (Ch) [397]; RM Goode, “The Nature and Transfer of Rights in Dematerialised and Immobilised Securities” (1996) 11 Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, 167.
  • Goode, Ibid.
  • Supra n 6, [4.26].
  • B Geier, “Comparison of the Electronic Securities Settlement Systems for the Secondary Securities Markets in Germany and England” (2008) 23 Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation 97, 100.
  • D Einsele, “Modernising German Law: Can the UNIDROIT Project on Intermediated Securities Provide Guidance?” (2005) 10 Uniform Law Review 251, 251.
  • Ibid, 257.
  • Supra n 14, 6–7.
  • Supra n 6, [2.42].
  • P Paech, “Harmonising Substantive Rules for the Use of Securities Held with Intermediaries as Collateral: the UNIDROIT Project” (2002) 7(4) Uniform Law Review 1140, 1140.
  • Ibid, 1151.
  • Ibid, 1140.
  • Convention, Art 9.
  • Ibid, Arts 11–13.
  • Ibid, Arts 15–16.
  • Ibid, Art 22.
  • Ibid, Arts 19, 20.
  • Ibid, Art 18.
  • Ibid, Arts 14, 21.
  • Ibid, Art 26.
  • Ibid, ch V.
  • Draft Official Commentary on the Draft Convention on Substantive Rules regarding Intermediated Securities (UNIDROIT 2009 CONF 11/2 – Doc 5), [9–3].
  • Convention, Art 26; Draft Official Commentary, supra n 46, [26–7], [26–8].
  • US Security Investor Protection Act 15 USC §§ 78aaa–111; CW Mooney and H Kanda, “Core Issues under the UNID-ROIT (Geneva) Convention on Intermediated Securities: Views from the United States and Japan” in L Gullifer and J Payne (eds), Intermediated Securities: Legal Problems and Practical Issues (Hart Publishing, 2010), 124.
  • Mooney, supra n 19, 355.
  • Barlow Clowes International v Vaughan [1992] 4 All ER 22; M Yates and G Montagu, The Law of Global Custody (Tottel Publishing, 3rd rev edn, 2009), 37; supra n 6, [4.177].
  • See L Qiang, Financial Law (Law Press, 2004).
  • Y Zhou (ed), New Survey on Securities Law (Law Press, 2007), 54–55.
  • CSRC and POB, 5 November 2002.
  • Zhou, supra n 52, 55.
  • CSRC and SAFE, 21 February 2001.
  • People's Republic of China (PRC) Interim Measures on the Administration of QFIIs' Investment in Domestic Securities (Order of the CSRC and PBC, No 12, adopted on 5 November 2002), Art 18.
  • PRC Provisions on the Administration of QFIIs' Investment in Domestic Securities (Order of the CSRC, POB and SAFE, adopted on 24 August 2006), Art 2.
  • Zhou, supra n 52, 678.
  • Order of SAFE, No 1 2009, adopted on 29 September 2009.
  • PRC Provisions on the Administration of QFIIs' Investment in Domestic Securities, Arts 6, 7.
  • Ibid, Art 3.
  • Ibid, Arts 11, 12.
  • Ibid, Art 13; For discussions on QFII in general, see T Lin, “Comparing Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFII) Mechanisms in Mainland China and Taiwan” (2006) 24 Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs 87; J Wang, “Dancing with Wolves: Regulation and Deregulation of Foreign Investment in China's Stock Market” (2005) 5 Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal 1; YN Ni, “China's Capital Flow Regulations: The Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor and the Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor Programs” (2008) 28 Review of Banking and Financial Law 299.
  • PRC Provisions on the Administration of QFIIs' Investment in Domestic Securities, Art 14.
  • Ibid, Art 16.
  • Ibid, Arts 18–20.
  • Ibid, Arts 24–28; PRC Provisions on Foreign Exchange Administration of QFIIs' Investment in Domestic Securities.
  • PRC Securities Law, Art 157.
  • PRC Measures on the Administration of Securities Registration and Settlement (promulgated by the CSRC on 7 April 2006, as revised on 20 November 2009), Art 31.
  • Ibid, Art 18.
  • Ibid, Art 19.
  • PRC Measures on the Administration of Securities Registration and Settlement (promulgated by the CSRC on 7 April 2006), Art 20; PRC Ordinances on Securities Firm Supervision and Administration (Order of the State Council, No 522, adopted on 23 April 2008), Art 28.
  • Chinaclear, “Securities Accounts Administration Rules”, rule 1.4.
  • Ibid, rule 3.14.
  • Chinaclear, “Securities Registration Rules” (25 July 2006), rule 5.
  • Ibid, 5.
  • PRC Ordinances on Securities Firm Supervision and Administration (Order of the State Council, No 522, adopted on 23 April 2008), Art 32.
  • Chinaclear, “Securities Registration Rules” (25 July 2006), rule 53.
  • PRC Insolvency Law, Arts 2, 134.
  • Order of the State Council, No 523, adopted on 23 April 2008.
  • PRC Measures on the Administration of Securities Registration and Settlement (promulgated by the CSRC on 7 April 2006, as revised on 20 November 2009), Art 41: participants of settlement with the CSD are limited to securities firms; Art 42: participants of settlement designate eligible commercial banks as settlement banks; Art 43: the CSD settles with participants of the settlement system, securities firms settle with clients.
  • For example, PRC Measures on the Administration of Securities Registration and Settlement (promulgated by the CSRC on 7 April 2006, as revised on 20 November 2009), Art 43.
  • PRC Provisions on the Administration of QFIIs' Investment in Domestic Securities (Order of the CSRC, POB and SAFE, adopted on 24 August 2006), Art 16.
  • PRC Measures on the Administration of Financial Bonds Offering on the Inter-bank Bonds Market (POB, adopted on 27 April 2005), Art 2.
  • PRC Tentative Measures on the Administration of Deposit of Government Bonds (Ministry of Finance, 10 April 1997), Art 17.
  • Ibid, Art 12.
  • PRC Measures on the Administration of Financial Bonds Offering on the Inter-bank Bonds Market (POB, adopted on 27 April 2005), Art 25.
  • PRC Tentative Measures on the Administration of Deposit of Government Bonds (CGZZ No [1997] 25, 10 April 1997), Art 19.
  • Ibid, Art 10.
  • Supra n 46, [1–37].
  • Ibid, [1–39].
  • For example, PRC Ordinances on Securities Firm Supervision and Administration (Order of the State Council, No 522, adopted on 23 April 2008), Art 59.
  • Ibid, Art 3.

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