1st Edition

The Foundations and Future of Financial Regulation Governance for Responsibility

By Mads Andenas, Iris H-Y Chiu Copyright 2014
560 Pages
by Routledge

560 Pages
by Routledge

560 Pages
by Routledge

Financial regulation has entered into a new era, as many foundational economic theories and policies supporting the existing infrastructure have been and are being questioned following the financial crisis. Goodhart et al’s seminal monograph "Financial Regulation: Why, How and Where Now?" (Routledge:1998) took stock of the extent of financial innovation and the maturity of the financial services... Read more

Part 1: The Objectives and Governance Landscape in Financial Regulation  1. Introduction  2. The Objectives of Financial Regulation  3. The Decentred Regulatory Space in Financial Sector Governance and the Essential Partnership of Public and Private-led Governance  4. The Governance Role of Auditors in Financial Regulation  Part 2: Investor Protection in Financial Regulation  5. The Nature of Investor Protection  6. Regulatory Governance of Alternative Investment Fund Managers  7. Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies  8. Consumer Protection in the Retail Market  Part 3: Regulating Financial Firms  9. Regulating the Soundness of Financial Intermediaries  10. From Financial Intermediaries to Masters of the Universe  11. Addressing the Consequences of Financial Empire Building and Systemic Risk Costs  12. Boosting Micro-prudential Regulation  13. The Meta-regulatory Nature of Risk Management and Corporate Governance  Part 4: Macro-prudential Supervision for the Future  14. The Rise of Macro-prudential Supervision  15. Information Collection and Surveillance in Macro-prudential Supervision  16. The Regulatory Architecture for Macro-prudential Supervision in the UK and EU  17. The Pre-emptive Approach in Financial Regulation and the Accountability of Regulatory Authorities in the UK and EU  18. The International Framework for Financial Regulation  19. Conclusion

Biography

Mads Andenas is a Professor of Law at the University of Oslo where he directs the project 'International Financial Market Regulation, Institutions and Efficiency' funded by the Norwegian Finance Market Fund, and the director of the Centre for Corporate and Financial Law at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.

Iris (H-Y) Chiu is a Reader in Laws at University College London. She is the author of The Foundations and Anatomy of Shareholder Activism (Oxford: Hart Publishing, October 2010) and Regulatory Convergence in EU Securities Regulation (London: Kluwer Law International, 2008).