Information Duties under German Capital Markets Law

I. Foundations of the German Capital Markets Law | 1. Growing Importance of External Finance | 2. Regulatory Concept and Assumptions | II. Regulatory Architecture | 1. EU | 2. Germany | III. Information | 1. Information Matrix | 2. Information Duties under the STA | 3. Information Duties Created by the Courts | 4. Tension Between Public and Civil Law Information Duties | IV. Challenges to the “Information Model” | 1. Bounded Rationality, Lack of Expertise, Information Overload | 2. General “Right of Repentance”? | V. Regulatory Reactions | 1. Key Information Document | 2. Product Governance and Product Intervention | 3. Fee Based Investment Advice | 4. Evaluation