Banking & Finance Law Books

New and Published Books

1. Banking Secrecy and Offshore Financial Centers

   Money laundering and offshore banking

   By Mary Alice Young

   Series: Routledge Research in Finance and Banking Law

   This book brings together the issues surrounding banking secrecy and confiscation of criminal proceeds. The book examines the existing legal agreements at the international, regional and national levels and their interaction in the substantive areas of confiscation, anti-money laundering and...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
2. Network Access, Regulation and Antitrust

   Edited by Diana L. Moss

   Series: The Economics of Legal Relationships

   The rapid growth of network industries has generated much comment amongst academics and policy makers. This timely volume takes an interdisciplinary, case study-based approach to examining network issues and experiences in order to develop recommendations that can inform antitrust, regulatory and...

   Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
3. Ownership Economics

   On the Foundations of Interest, Money, Markets, Business Cycles and Economic Development

   By Gunnar Heinsohn, Otto Steiger

   Edited by Frank Decker

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This book presents the first full-length explanation in English of Heinsohn and Steiger's groundbreaking theory of money and interest, which emphasizes the role played by private property rights. Ownership economics gives an alternative explanation of money and interest, proposing that operations...

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
4. Insider Trading in Developing Jurisdictions

   Achieving an effective regulatory regime

   By Wunmi Bewaji

   The book examines the regulation of insider dealing in the developed jurisdictions, using three of the G7 countries as guides with the aim of knowing how they have regulated insider trading and what lessons can be learnt from their failures and achievements. It looks at regulatory regimes in...

   Published June 11th 2012 by Routledge
5. Financial Crimes

   A Threat to Global Security

   Edited by Maximillian Edelbacher, Peter Kratcoski, Michael Theil

   Series: Advances in Police Theory and Practice

   Financial market reform has focused chiefly on the threats to stability arising from the risky, uncontrolled activity of the leaders of financial institutions. Nevertheless, organized crime, white-collar crime, and corruption have a huge impact on financial systems worldwide and must also be...

   Published June 3rd 2012 by CRC Press
6. European Prudential Banking Regulation and Supervision

   The Legal Dimension

   By Larisa Dragomir

   Series: Routledge Research in Finance and Banking Law

   The financial market events in 2007-2009 have spurred renewed interest and controversy in debates regarding financial regulation and supervision. This book takes stock of the developments in EU legislation, case law and institutional structures with regards to banking regulation and supervision,...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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