Routledge Research in Finance and Banking Law
About the Book Series
This series explores the key developments in financial and banking law, offering critical analyses of legislation and regulatory frameworks at the international regional and domestic levels. Legislation, case law, regulatory structures and institutions are discussed from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. The books in this series provide valuable and far-reaching investigations into the challenges of regulating finance and banking in a fast-moving and interconnected global economy.
Credit and Creed: A Critical Legal Theory of Money
1st Edition
By Andreas Rahmatian
December 13, 2021
Money is a legal institution with principal economic and sociological consequences. Money is a debt, because that is how it is conceptualised and comes into existence: as circulating credit – if viewed from the creditor’s perspective – or, from the debtor’s viewpoint, as debt. This book presents a ...
Housing and Financial Stability: Mortgage Lending and Macroprudential Policy in the UK and US
1st Edition
By Alan Brener
December 13, 2021
This book brings together politics, law, financial services regulation, economics and housing policy in the analysis of mortgage lending and macroprudential policy in the UK and US.The book addresses the relationship between housing policy, credit and financial instability in light of the recent ...
Trust and Distrust in Digital Economies
1st Edition
By Philippa Ryan
December 13, 2021
In digital economies, the Internet enables the "platformisation" of everything. Big technology companies and mobile apps are running mega marketplaces, supported by seamless online payments systems. This rapidly expanding ecosystem is fueled by data. Meanwhile, perceptions of the global financial ...
Private Lending in China: Practice, Law, and Regulation of Shadow Banking and Alternative Finance
1st Edition
By Lerong Lu
June 30, 2021
This book explores China’s private lending market from historical, economic, legal, and regulatory perspectives. Private lending refers to moneylending agreements between business borrowers and their debt investors without the involvement of banks. In China, it remains difficult for private ...
Microfinance and Financial Inclusion: The challenge of regulating alternative forms of finance
1st Edition
By Eugenia Macchiavello
August 14, 2020
Following the recent global financial crisis there is a growing interest in alternative finance – and microfinance in particular – as new instruments for providing financial services in a socially responsible way or as an alternative to traditional banking. Nonetheless, correspondingly there is ...
Regulation and Supervision of the OTC Derivatives Market
1st Edition
By Ligia Catherine Arias-Barrera
August 14, 2020
The over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market has captured the attention of regulators after the Global Financial Crisis due to the risk it poses to financial stability. Under the post-crisis regulatory reform the concentration of business, and risks, among a few major players is changed by the ...
Management and Regulation of Pension Schemes: Australia a Cautionary Tale
1st Edition
By Nicholas Morris
June 30, 2020
Perhaps the greatest long-term challenge facing modern economies is how to pay for the living expenses and care costs of the elderly. Following policy decisions made in Australia in the 1990s, a substantial part of the pension requirements of the next cohort of retirees will be met from savings ...
The Regulation and Supervision of Banks: The Post Crisis Regulatory Responses of the EU
1st Edition
By Chen Chen Hu
June 30, 2020
Over the past two decades, the banking industry has expanded and consolidated at a stunningly unprecedented speed. In this time banks have also moved from focusing purely on commercial banking activities to being heavily involved in market-based and transaction-oriented wholesale and investment ...
Value Added Tax Fraud
1st Edition
By Marius-Cristian Frunza
June 30, 2020
Serving as an introduction to one of the "hottest" topics in financial crime, the Value Added Tax (VAT) fraud, this new and original book aims to analyze and decrypt the fraud and explore multi-disciplinary avenues, thereby exposing nuances and shades that remain concealed by traditional taxation ...
Law and Regulation of Mobile Payment Systems: Issues arising �post� financial inclusion in Kenya
1st Edition
By Joy Malala
December 12, 2019
Over the last ten years mobile payment systems have revolutionised banking in some countries in Africa. In Kenya the introduction of M-Pesa, a new financial services model, has transformed the banking and financial services industry. Giving the unbanked majority access to the financial services ...
Law and Finance after the Financial Crisis: The Untold Stories of the UK Financial Market
1st Edition
Edited
By Abdul Karim Aldohni
October 18, 2018
The 2008 financial crisis has become one of the defining features of the twenty first century’s first decade. The series of events which unfolded in the aftermath of the crisis has exposed major structural flaws in many of the financial systems around the globe, triggering a global call for legal ...
Financial Stability and Prudential Regulation: A Comparative Approach to the UK, US, Canada, Australia and Germany
1st Edition
By Alison Lui
June 01, 2018
Financial stability is one of the key tenets of a central bank’s functions. Since the financial crisis of 2007-2009, an area of hot debate is the extent to which the central bank should be involved with prudential regulation. This book examines the macro and micro-prudential regulatory frameworks ...