Banking law

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

A systemic risk event that leads to significant losses in banks that are significant financial institutions can expose them to insolvency, significant volatility and impose serious negative impact on a country's economy, as witnessed during the 2008 financial crash.

This book examines a key aspect of the post-financial crisis reform package in the EU and UK-the ratcheting up of internal control in banks and financial institutions.

Butterworths Financial Services Compliance Manual provides a guide in implementing a form of internal control in accounting to ensure compliance with the Financial Services Act of 1986.

There is an ever-increasing interest in the question of how and why legal norms can effectively guide human action.

The rapid growth of network industries has generated much comment amongst academics and policy makers.

Corruption is a globalising phenomenon.

Following the internationalisation, globalisation and deregulation of the financial market over the last few decades, the financial sector has evolved from a servicing industry into an initiating and leading sector in the international industrialised economy.

This is a conversational text that provides a comprehensive view of the law of American business failure.

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

Global Financial Networked Governance provides a careful analysis of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and the standard-setters under its umbrella to show how such government networks harness the power of public reputation to herd their members into compliance.

The financial crisis that began in 2008 and its lingering aftermath have caused many intellectuals and politicians to question the virtues of capitalist systems.

The VAT Carousel Fraud has seriously undermined the financial integrity of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS).

The discipline of law and economics has earned a reputation for developing plausible and empirically testable theories on the social functions and the impact of legal institutions.

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.

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.

Serving as an introduction to one of the "e;hottest"e; topics in financial crime, the Value Added Tax (VAT) fraud, this new and original book aims to analyze and decrypt the fraud and explore multi-disciplinary avenues, thereby exposing nuances and shades that remain concealed by traditional taxation oriented researches.

The Economics of Crime presents a review of economic scholarly research in the ever-growing field of crime and punishment.

This book provides a comprehensive study of the Supreme Court''s bankruptcy cases, illustrating and explaining the structural reasons for the Court''s narrow bankruptcy perspective.

The global shift from the direct holding of securities by investors to the current intermediated holding system raises many important legal issues.

This book provides a detailed analysis of mutual fund regulations and governance in the UK from the investor protection perspective.

Investigating white-collar crime is like any other investigation concerned with past events.

This book provides a comprehensive and expert examination of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II, which comes into force in January 2018 and will have a major impact on investment firms and financial markets.

Financial capital regulation drives almost every aspect of the financial markets, from the structures of financial groups and the way they raise capital to the development of investment structures and financial engineering such as derivatives, securitisations, structured finance, credit derivatives, repos and stock lending.

Corporate Finance: The Basics is a concise introduction to the inner workings of finance at the company level.

Since the 9/11 attacks the world has witnessed the creation of both domestic and international legal instruments designed to disrupt and interdict the financial activities of terrorists.

There are many deep-seated reasons for the current financial turmoil but a key factor has undoubtedly been the serious failings within the corporate governance practices of financial institutions.

This book tackles the challenging topic of corruption.

The post-2008 financial regulatory reforms do not fully appreciated the critical role of the supervisory model in attaining financial stability.

Money is a legal institution with principal economic and sociological consequences.

Newly expanded and revised, this book explains why informal standards are used to coordinate global financial rules.

The most comprehensive single-volume practitioner reference work on financial regulation, Financial Services Law has been thoroughly revised and updated to take account of the major developments in a rapidly developing regulatory landscape.

The Fraud Act 2006 presented a wholesale reform of the pre-existing deception offences under the Theft Act 1968 and Theft Act 1978.

Fisher and Fox demonstrate how ordinary people experienced the foreclosure crisis and how lenders and public institutions failed to protect them.

Comparative Takeover Regulation compares the laws relating to takeovers in leading Asian economies and relates them to broader global developments.

There are many deep-seated reasons for the current financial turmoil but a key factor has undoubtedly been the serious failings within the corporate governance practices of financial institutions.

The system of securities regulation that prevails today in the United States is one that has been formed through piecemeal federal legislation, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) invocation of its administrative authority, and self-regulatory episodic action.

This book explains how international financial law ''works'' - and presents an alternative theory for understanding its purpose, operation and limitations.

Following the chaotic effects of the global financial crisis on European financial markets, the legislative regime introduced by the European Union (EU) represents a dramatic new approach to bank insolvency law, and will have a profound effect on the way banks function.

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

The book addresses the current challenges faced by financial consumers in the context of enormous technological developments.

In recent years, an increasing number of clients and third parties have filed claims against banks such as for mis-selling financial products, poor financial advice, insufficient disclosure of and warning about financial risks.

Despite abundant literature on transaction costs, there is little to no in-depth analysis regarding what the transaction is or how it works.

Financial stability is one of the key tenets of a central bank's functions.

Corporate Liability for Insider Trading examines the reasons why there have been no successful criminal prosecutions, or successful contested civil proceedings, against corporations for insider trading, and analyses the various rationales for prohibiting insider trading.

Compares workfare policies in the United States and Western Europe aimed at the ''workless'' population.

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.

In digital economies, the Internet enables the "e;platformisation"e; of everything.

In light of on-going global financial crises, the institutional structure of financial regulation is currently a subject of significant academic and practical interest.