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Banking Supervision & Systemic Bank Restructuringby Kenneth Mwenda
Routledge-Cavendish 2000; US$ 247.00The text deals with contemporary issues in banking supervision and systematic bank restructuring. A legal and institutional perspective is undertaken to look at the issues which arise in a number of jurisdictions and which are not confined to one country alone. more...
New Regulation of the Financial Industryby Dimitris N. Chorafas
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2000; US$ 148.00Written by a leading financial analyst, this new book provides a detailed overview of the new regulatory environment facing the financial industry. Whilst the 1980s and early 1990s focused on deregulation within the financial sector, today a key point of interest has become re-regulation - and in a global setting. The new rules of supervision stress transparency and market discipline, which has an impact on trading strategies and lending patterns as well as ways of managing assets and liabilities.Written for analysts, traders, technologists and managers of financial institutions, this book provides coverage of the aftermath of this new regulatory environment, and the implications of globalisation and technological developments. more...
Money Launderingby Guy Stessens; James Crawford; John Bell
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 49.00This book gives an analysis of the legal issues raised by the international fight against money laundering. A comparative research of the criminal and preventive law aspects from an international perspective, it contains the most detailed overview yet published on the rules and practices of international co-operation in this area. more...
A Comparative Guide to Anti-Money Launderingby M. Pieth; G. Aiolfi
Edward Elgar Publishing 2004; US$ 40.00The study, conducted by the Basel Institute on Governance, begins by examining the international standards regarding money laundering, their historical and political roots, and the driving forces that have shaped money laundering and its prevention over recent years. Then they focus on the four financial centers, each of which is important in cross more...
Rethinking Bank Regulationby James R. Barth; Gerard Caprio Jr.; Ross Levine
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 30.00This volume assembles and presents a new database on bank regulation in over 150 countries (included also on CD). It offers the first comprehensive cross-country assessment of the impact of bank regulation on the operation of banks, and assesses the validity of the Basel Committee's influential approach to bank regulation. more...
Towards better regulation! Work in progress in developed and emerging marketsby Oonagh McDonald
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 199.00Compiled by Michael Foot CBE [former executive director of the Bank of England, spearheaded the creation of the Financial Services Industry, currently inspector of Bank and Trust Companies for the Bahamas], this reflects Michael?s widespread contacts in the field of financial compliance and regulation and ensures a truly global perspective both on improving existing regulation, and also implementing where little currently exists. Comprising 11 papers with contributions from the Financial Services Authority here in the UK, to the Chinese University in Hong Kong, this is vital for anyone working in the compliance or enforcement process, or who just wishes to tap safely into emerging markets. more...
The New Financial Architectureby Benton E. Gup
Greenwood Publishing Group 2000; US$ 120.00A resource for banking, finance, investment and world trade professionals and their academic counterparts. It covers a wide range of topics, from the rationale of banking regulation, to optimal banking regulation in the new world environments. more...
Banking Regulation and World Trade Lawby Lazaros E. Panourgias
Hart 2006; US$ 223.20Banking Regulation and World Trade Law concerns the legal aspects of the interaction between banking regulation and international trade in financial services. The author studies the internal banking market of the European Union, the liberalisation of financial services trade in the World Trade Organization, the accords of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the European Central Bank. The book focuses on the balancing between banking regulation and international trade law. It discusses discrimination and proportionality in national banking regulation, the allocation of prudential regulation and supervision between home and host country, and international financial law-making. The author questions decentralised/nation-based banking... more...
Anti-Money Launderingby Wouter H. Muller; Christian H. Kalin; John G. Goldsworth
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2007; US$ 180.00Anti-Money Laundering is the definitive reference on money laundering and practice. First an outline will be given of the general approach taken by supra-national organisations like the United Nations and the European Council. Next the approach taken by international organisations and initiatives on the basis of the supra-national initiatives will be outlined by senior members of those organisations. A number of countries will then describe their specific prevention legislation. Countries involved will all be member-countries of the FATF ( Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering) . Finally there will be an overview to enable the reader to make a comparison between the most important topics of money laundering legislation and rules... more...
Electronic Banking und Datenschutz: Rechtsfragen und Praxis (German Edition)by Thomas Kahler; Stefan Werner
Springer 2008; US$ 79.95Das Buch behandelt Rechtsfragen des elektronischen Geschäftsverkehrs und des Datenschutzes in der Kreditwirtschaft. Schwerpunkte bilden neben Fragen der rechtlichen Gestaltung von Verträgen des Electronic-Banking haftungs- und beweisrechtliche Probleme sowie die Bedeutung des Datenschutzes und des Bankgeheimnisses insbesondere für das Privatkundensegment von Kreditinstituten. In einem ersten Teil werden die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen für Bankgeschäfte über Fernabsatzmedien anhand der von der deutschen Kreditwirtschaft angebotenen Verfahren dargestellt. Der zweite Teil beschäftigt sich besonders mit dem Zusammenwirken von Datenschutz und Bankgeheimnis als Grundlage des Datenschutzes in der Bank. Zudem werden die relevanten Grundlagen des... more...