Banking & Finance Law Books

New and Published Books

1. The Law and Consumer Credit Information in the European Community

   The Regulation of Credit Information Systems

   By Federico Ferretti

   Consumer credit information systems are the tools used by the majority of lenders to manage credit risk, with lenders accessing credit reference databases managed by third party providers to evaluate a consumer’s credit application. So far, the subject of consumer credit reporting has been left to...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
2. The Timing of Income Recognition in Tax Law and the Time Value of Money

   By Moshe Shekel

   Time itself creates advantages and disadvantages in the field of taxation. The timing of the recognition of income and expenses for tax purposes has two main implications: firstly, for the timing of the collection of tax, and secondly, for the question of quantification, i.e., how to ensure that...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge-Cavendish
3. Money Laundering – An Endless Cycle?

   A Comparative Analysis of the Anti-Money Laundering Policies in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada

   By Nicholas Ryder

   This book provides a detailed examination of anti-money laundering policies and legislative frameworks in a number of jurisdictions and considers how successful these jurisdictions have been in implementing international measures to combat money laundering. Looking at the instruments and proposals...

   Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Policing the Markets

   Inside the Black Box of Securities Enforcement

   By James Williams

   Set against the backdrop of the recurring waves of financial scandal and crisis to hit Canada, the US, the UK, and Europe over the last decade, this book examines the struggles of securities enforcement agencies to police the financial markets. While allegations of regulatory failure in this realm...

   Published January 16th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Integration of European Financial Markets

   The Regulation of Monetary Obligations

   By Noah Vardi

   Series: UT Austin Studies in Foreign and Transnational Law

   The last decade has seen the increasing integration of European financial markets due to a number of factors including the creation of a common regulatory framework, the liberalisation of international capital movements, financial deregulation, advances in technology and the introduction of the...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
6. Human Rights, Natural Resource and Investment Law in a Globalised World

   Shades of Grey in the Shadow of the Law

   By Lorenzo Cotula

   Series: Routledge Research in International Economic Law

   In the world’s developing countries, foreign investment in natural resources brings into contact competing interests that are often characterised by unequal balances of negotiating power – from multinational corporations and host governments, through to the local people affected by the influx of...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Islamic Banking

   A Comparative Look at the United Kingdom and Malaysia

   By Abdul Karim Aldohni

   Series: Routledge Research in Finance and Banking Law

   During the last ten years the Islamic banking sector has grown rapidly, at an international level, as well as in individual jurisdictions including the UK. Islamic finance differs quite substantially from conventional banking, using very different mechanisms, and operating according to a different...

   Published June 29th 2011 by Routledge
8. Concise Income Tax

   5th Edition

   By Julie Cassidy

   The fifth edition of Concise Income Tax continues to provide a comprehensive, yet succinct, examination of the most important areas of income taxation law. Almost every chapter in the book has had to be updated to reflect changes. In the context of tax administration these include the expansion of...

   Published June 1st 2011 by Federation Press
9. The Anti Money Laundering Complex and the Compliance Industry

   By Antoinette Verhage

   Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Economics

   Financial institutions, as gateways to the financial system, to economic power and possibilities, are one of the major vehicles for money laundering and therefore also represent an important means to prevent this type of crime. The compliance officer symbolises a part of this private investment in...

   Published March 1st 2011 by Routledge
10. The Capital Needs of Central Banks

    Edited by Sue Milton, Peter Sinclair

    Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

    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 question is what is an appropriate level of equity, or capital,...

    Published October 28th 2010 by Routledge