Abstract
The rapid development of internet finance, while promoting social and economic growth and stimulating economic vitality, has also given rise to issues of unfair competition in commercial promotion. How to identify and handle illegal commercial promotion in internet finance is an important issue that needs to be addressed in the construction of economic rule of law. Traditional criteria for determining unfair competition fail to fully address the new changes in internet finance, leading to regulatory dilemmas regarding such criteria. Anti-unfair competition regulations are misaligned with internet finance consumption scenarios, and there is a lack of normative standards for identifying unfair competition in internet finance commercial promotion. To standardize the identification of unfair competition in internet finance commercial promotion, it is necessary to accurately grasp the theoretical assumptions of traditional identification criteria, deepen the understanding of the basic theories underlying these criteria, and develop a systematic framework for identify unfair competition practices, that is, taking “unfairness of conduct” as the core thread, “whether it distorts consumer decisions” as the core object, and “form + substance” as the core content. The normative construction of criteria for determining unfair competition in internet finance commercial promotion should focus on key links in the identification standards; establish formal standards for the reasonable disclosure of information, including standards such as legality, authenticity, accuracy, sufficiency, rationality, and comprehensibility; set substantive standards for the extension of suitability obligations, including requirements such as effectively presenting the risk-return relationship, maintaining neutrality and objectivity, and giving reasonable attention to differences among target audiences of commercial promotion, establish the suitability obligation standards among internet financial products, commercial promotion and financial consumers.
Key words
internet finance /
commercial promotion /
unfair competition /
behavioral finance /
consumer decision-making
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LI Jian-huan.
The Criteria for Identifying Unfair Competition in Internet Finance Commercial Promotion[J]. Journal of Beijing Jiaotong University(Social Sciences Edition). 2025, 24(4): 128-137
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