ECMI Book #, June 2011: 'Engagement between investors and public companies: Impediments and their resolution' addresses the question of stewardship (thoughtful ownership) in the UK and the European Union, after the financial crisis. Sponsored by the CFA Institute and the FGRE and written in cooperation with ECMI, this report considers the potential inadequacy of stewardship by the investment industry and the degree of integration of corporate governance analysis in the investment process.

December 2009. Over the last decade the securities industry revolutionized. Technological and market innovations urged regulators to respond by updating the rules on securities trading. While in the U.S. traditional stock exchanges were under attack from electronic trading systems (ECNs), the European Union wanted to increase competition by abolishing the monopoly of traditional exchanges and by allowing systemic internalization by banks. The first part of this book focuses on the front-office of securities trading.

October 2005. Non-equity financial markets used to be "hidden" in Europe, in the sense that relative to their size, they traditionally received less attention from ordinary investors and the media than equity markets. This phenomenon was accentuated by the fact that the Financial Services Action Plan was primarily geared towards equity markets.

January 2000. Since the collapse of the communist regimes in 1989, the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries have been undergoing a transition period from a command economy to a market-orientated economic system. The prospects of EU enlargement in Eastern Europe and the dramatic effects that the Russian crisis has had on world capital markets awakened interest in those markets.