Special Edition on Rethinking Global Economies, Financial Markets, Corporate Practices & Business Activities Post-COVID-19 Pandemic

• Jurisdiction: South Africa
• Date: 01 June 2023
• Pages: 133-135
• Author: Howard Chitimira
• Published date: 01 June 2023
• DOI: 10.17159/2225-7160/2023/v56a10

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Editorial

Special Edition on Rethinking Global

Economies, Financial Markets,

Corporate Practices & Business Activities

Post-COVID-19 Pandemic

Howard Chitimira (Guest Editor)*

Research Professor and Professor of Securities and Financial Markets Law,

North-West University

The 2nd Annual International Corporate and Financial Markets Law

Conference (CFML) was held hybrid (physical attendance & virtually), at

the Faculty of Law, North-West University, from 27 to 28 October 2022.

This conference provides a platform for students, legal practitioners,

regulatory authorities, emerging researchers, established researchers,

policymakers, and other relevant persons to examine and discuss topical

issues of corporate and financial markets law and related fields. The

CFML conference was held under the theme: Rethinking Global

Economies, Financial Markets, Corporate Practices & Business Activities

Post-COVID-19 Pandemic.1 It focused on the need for companies, policy

makers, international financial institutions, governments, business

persons, market participants and all relevant persons to re-think their

corporate practices, global economies and ethical standards in the global

financial markets and financial institutions Post-COVID-19 Pandemic.2

This follows the fact that most companies, international financial

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1 Alexandre and Eisenhart “Mobile Money as an Engine of Financial Inclusion

and Lynchpin of Financial Integrity” 2013 Washington Journal of Law,

Technology and Arts 288-289; Chitimira and Ncube “Legislative and Other

Selected Challenges Affecting Financial Inclusion for the Poor and Low

Income Earners in South Africa” 2020 Journal of African Law 337-338;

Ngwenya, Pelser and Chivaura “Perceptions of Post-multicurrency Regime

Financial Inclusion Confidence Challenges in Zimbabwe” 2018South

African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences 1-15; Chitimira and

Torerai “The Nexus Between Mobile Money Regulation, Innovative

Technology and the Promotion of Financial Inclusion in Zimbabwe” 2021

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal 1-4.

2 Lumsden “The Future is Mobile: Financial Inclusion and Technological

Innovation in the Emerging World” 2018 Stanford Journal of Law, Business

and Finance 7-8; Kantor Immerman Legal Practitioners “Corporate Rescue –

A Consideration for Companies Affected by COVID-19?” 15 March 2021

http://www.kantorimmerman.co.zw/corporate-rescue-a-consideration-for-

companies-affected-by-covid-19/ (last accessed 2023-07-02); Ngwenya,

Pelser and Chivaura 2018South African Journal of Economic and

Management Sciences 1-15; Chitimira and Torerai 2021 Potchefstroom

Electronic Law Journal 4; Chitimira and Ncube 2020 Journal of African Law

338.

* LLB (Cum Laude), LLM (UFH), LLD (NMMU). Research Professor and

Professor of Securities and Financial Markets Law, Faculty of Law, North-

West University, South Africa. E-mail: Howard.Chitimira@nwu.ac.za. Orcid:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1881-1242.

How to cite: Chitimira ‘Editorial: Special Edition on Rethinking Global Economies, Financial Markets, Corporate

Practices & Business Activities Post-COVID-19 Pandemic’ 2023 De Jure Law Journal 133-135

http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2225-7160/2023/v56a10