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Secured Credit under English and American Lawby Gerard McCormack; Barry Rider
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 125.00Under English Law it is possible to create security over almost any asset, but the law is considered to be unsatisfactory. McCormack examines the law in England, highlighting its weaknesses. He uses Article 9 of the American Uniform Commercial Code as a reference point. Contains the text of Article 9. more...
Secured Transactions Reform and Access to Creditby Frederique Dahan; John Simpson
Edward Elgar Publishing 2008; US$ 40.00Secured transactions reform, also known as pledge law reform, is seen as an important building block for economic development. This work addresses the question of what role laws and institutions can play to encourage access to credit. It is suitable for those involved in economic development and the interaction between law and economics. more...
Reforming Collateral Laws to Expand Access to Financeby Heywood Fleisig
World Bank Publications 2006; US$ 9.99Most readers, especially those with car loans or home mortgages, know about "collateral"--property that the lender can take away from the borrower in the event that the borrower defaults. In low/middle income countries, it is understood that conservative lenders exclude firms from credit markets with their excessive collateral requirements. Usually, this is because only some property is acceptable as collateral: large holdings of urban real estate and, sometimes, new motor vehicles. Microenterprises, SMEs, and the poor have little of this property but they do have an array of productive assets that could easily be harnessed to serve as collateral. It is only the legal framework which prevents firms from using these assets to secure... more...
International Secured Transactions Lawby Orkun Akseli
Taylor & Francis 2011; US$ 150.00This book focuses on international harmonisation and the law of secured transactions by distilling and analysing the unifying principles of various significant international conventions and instruments such as the UN Convention on the Assignment of Receivables, the Unidroit Convention on International Factoring, the EBRD Model Law on Secured Transactions, the Unidroit Convention on the International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions. International secured transactions conventions and instruments facilitate credit and promote economic activity through the creation of harmonised rules. Therefore, given the increasing globalisation of markets, international reform efforts for the harmonised... more...
Collateral Knowledgeby Annelise Riles
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 27.50Who are the agents of financial regulation? Is good (or bad) financial governance merely the work of legislators and regulators? Here Annelise Riles argues that financial governance is made not just through top-down laws and policies but also through the daily use of mundane legal techniques such as collateral by a variety of secondary agents, from legal technicians and retail investors to financiers and academics and even computerized trading programs. Drawing upon her ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in the Japanese derivatives market, Riles explores the uses of collateral in the financial markets as a regulatory device for stabilizing market... more...
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