Putting Financial Regulation to Work: Using Simplification and Visualization for Consumer-Friendly Information

in Erich Schweighofer et al. (Eds.), Networks. Proceedings of the 19th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2016. Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft OCG, Wien 2016, pp. 399–406 (ISBN 978-3-903035-09-6), and in Jusletter IT, 25 February 2016

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Marika Salo

University of Vaasa

Helena Haapio

Lexpert Ltd; University of Lapland - Faculty of Law; University of Vaasa, School of Accounting and Finance, Business Law; Tampere University - Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences; JARGONFREE Research Group

Stefania Passera

University of Helsinki - Legal Tech Lab; Aalto University - School of Science

Date Written: February 25, 2016

Abstract

Financial regulation and investment products have become more and more complex. Informa-tion disclosures tend to be off-puttingly long and densely texted documents. Investor behavior studies indicate that investors often skip and skim information – and even worse, sometimes they do not read it at all. Investors’ abilities to comprehend and use financial information give no reason to cheer, either. Fortunately, we have tools to overcome complexity. Build-ing on our previous work where we have applied simplification and visualization to improve the communication of contracts, this paper explores the use of these approaches to financial communication.

Keywords: Communicating complex financial information, key information documents (KIDs), proactive/preventive investor protection, simplification, visualization

Suggested Citation

Salo, Marika and Haapio, Helena and Passera, Stefania, Putting Financial Regulation to Work: Using Simplification and Visualization for Consumer-Friendly Information (February 25, 2016). in Erich Schweighofer et al. (Eds.), Networks. Proceedings of the 19th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2016. Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft OCG, Wien 2016, pp. 399–406 (ISBN 978-3-903035-09-6), and in Jusletter IT, 25 February 2016 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2941456 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2941456

Marika Salo

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Stefania Passera

University of Helsinki - Legal Tech Lab ( email )

Helsinki
Finland

Aalto University - School of Science ( email )

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Espoo, Aalto FI-00076
Finland

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