Banking law

It is often argued that international financial regulation has been substantially strengthened over the past decades through the international harmonization of financial regulation.

The Criminal Finances Act 2017 introduced the most radical change to tackling money laundering and corruption, recovering the proceeds of crime and counter terrorist financing, since the Proceeds of Crime Act was passed in 2002.

The 2008 global financial crisis ushered in the biggest explosion in new bank regulation around the world since the Great Depression.

The global financial and economic crisis which started in 2008 has had devastating effects around the globe.

A comprehensive presentation of the use of economics in judicial decisions, the book is structured to provide all the foundational concepts that are important for the application of economics to the development and interpretation of statutes that emanate from economic conditions.

Starting with an overview of the development of money laundering and the work of international organisations, International Guide to Money Laundering Law and Practice is a unique publication providing a detailed insight into the background of money laundering operations, clearly explaining the anti-money laundering laws and regulations in 35 key global financial centres throughout the world.

Financial regulation can fail when it is needed the most.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the global response to it has led to a major upheaval of the international banking sector.

European Banking and Financial Law Statutes presents all the key legislation for European banking and financial law in one student-friendly volume.

A comprehensive legal inquiry into children''s rights and business, drawing on insights from various disciplines, enriched by in-depth case studies.

Transnational commercial law represents the outcome of work undertaken to harmonize national laws affecting domestic and cross-border transactions and is upheld by a diverse spectrum of instruments.

A major contribution to the historical record on banking supervision.

Over the last ten years mobile payment systems have revolutionised banking in some countries in Africa.

On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists committed the largest and deadliest terrorist attack in the United States of America.

In the wake of the global financial crisis, investors have suffered significant losses as a result of breaches of conduct of business rules in the distribution of financial instruments.

This is a history-though, intentionally, a brief history-of the rise of law and economics as a field of thought in the U.

Now, for the first time, there is a comprehensive, eminently readable book designed to focus thinking in the area of contract law.

Provides insights on shareholder voting and engagement in nineteen jurisdictions using comparative legal and empirical analyses.

Foundations of International Commercial Law provides a fresh analysis of both the contextual features of International Commercial Law and a range of different International Commercial Law instruments.

Time itself creates advantages and disadvantages in the field of taxation.

Now in its third edition, The Law of Private Investment Funds provides the clearest and most concise dual US/UK and pan-asset analysis available on the legal and regulatory issues that arise in connection with private investment funds.

Crypto-Finance, Law and Regulation investigates whether crypto-finance will cause a paradigm shift in regulation from a centralised model to a model based on distributed consensus.

Central banks have evolved over many years, and sometimes centuries, as policy-making, not profit-making, institutions, and yet they are structured legally and financially like 'for-profit' companies of the twenty-first century.

The multilateral development banks cumulatively channel billions of dollars annually in development assistance to borrower countries.

What are the criteria used by Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the European Union to blacklist jurisdictions at high-risk of money laundering?

The last twenty years have witnessed an astonishing transformation: the fight against corruption has grown from a handful of local undertakings into a truly global effort.

In the years since the 2008 financial crisis, U.

International taxation is a major research topic, and for a field of research at the intersection of so many disciplines there has been surprisingly little done across disciplinary boundaries.

This book highlights the intersection between international investment law and sustainable development, particularly in the context of the right to regulate for public interest related to sustainable development.

In Legislating International Organization, Kathryn Lavelle argues against the commonly-held idea that key international organizations are entities unto themselves, immune from the influence and pressures of individual states' domestic policies.

This new book analyses the challenge of how money (including coins, notes, credit, and virtual currency) should be defined from both a legal and an economic perspective.

Explains the legal implications of internationalisation, standardisation and diversification in modern derivatives markets, demonstrating the key role of national courts.

This collection of essays offers a unique insight and overview of the secured transactions law in many of the most important countries in Asia, as well as reflections on the need for, benefits of and challenges for reform in this area of the law.

Responding to lessons learned during the global financial crisis, the EU Directive on the Recovery and Resolution of Banks and Securities Firms (the BRRD) has substantially changed the legal framework for insolvency management of financial services institutions across Europe.

This collection of essays provides a rich and contemporary discussion of the principle of pacta sunt servanda.

This book examines the regulatory framework, regulatory objectives, regulatory logics, regulatory instruments, regulatory failures, and regulatory responses in China's financial market after the global financial crisis.

Examines predatory practices in mortgage markets to provide invaluable insight into the racial wealth gap between black and white Americans.

The concept of tax compliance is as old as the tax itself, but staying compliant with tax regulations has become increasingly demanding.

This book provides a commentary on the law of the EU related to the Monetary Union.

In this book, legal scholars from the EU Member States (with the addition of the UK) analyse the development of the EU Member States' attitudes to economic, fiscal, and monetary integration since the Treaty of Maastricht.

Repo and stock lending are now global markets, covering a huge variety of underlying assets and encompassing an ever-widening range of participants, each with a different set of motivations.

A comprehensive guide to the rules and regulations that govern the UK financial services industry, providing:- Analysis of the various laws and regulations and how they impact on customer relations and retail products- An outline of the protection given to clients' money and the functioning of the prudential requirements- An explanation of the rationale and operation of enforcement procedures- Details of requirements as they apply to professionals who engage in financial services activities as an incidental part of their professional activities- A consideration of recently implemented EU initiativesThe fifth edition has been fully updated in line with the post-EU regime and in addition includes updates to: - the new investments and investment activities and the FCA rules and their impact- the FCA authorisation procedures and their impact- the approved persons regime- the rules and, in particular, their applications in relation to retail products and customer relations- the rules in relation to professionalsas well as coverage of:- the EU Market Abuse Regulation- 4th and 5th Money Laundering Directives in their UK form including additional examples of enforcement actions and prosecutions and the lessons to be learned- new case law in relation to enforcement and the lessons learnedCovering the latest developments, this valuable text is set out in the context of common practice and is indispensable for those working within or otherwise associated with the financial services industry, namely lawyers, compliance officers, auditors, financial advisers, consultants, academics and students.

This book provides a commentary on the law of the EU related to the Monetary Union.

Over the last few decades, many countries have reformed their secured transactions law.

This is a new examination of how Shari'a law affects public policy both theoretically and in practice, across a wide range of public policy areas, including for example human rights and family law.

This book examines the evolution of legal institutions in containing and tackling fraudulent activities plaguing payment systems ('payment fraud', e.

There is little literature on the development of banking regulation in Nigeria, or the scope of powers of the Central Bank of Nigeria, which is its core banking sector regulator.

This collection offers a comparative overview of how financial regulations have evolved in various European countries since the introduction of the single European market in 1986.