The Law of Financial Crime
About the Book Series
While a growing number of high profile financial crime cases have hit the headlines recently the topic of financial crime is also generating much attention amongst academics and practitioners. This series will be the first to be dedicated to the law of financial, or economic, crime and offers a platform for important and original research in this area.
Books in the series will cover traditional subjects of financial crime including money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, market abuse, insider dealing, market manipulation, tax evasion, bribery and corruption. But broader legal and regulatory issues will also be covered as well as emerging areas of concern such as the risks to stability of the financial system posed by financial crime. Emphasis will be placed on comparative approaches to the subject considering legislation across a number of jurisdictions as well as international regulations where appropriate, giving the series a truly global outlook.
The titles in the series are primarily aimed at an audience of researchers, scholars and practitioners in the area but should also be of interest to policy makers, law enforcement agencies, financial regulatory agencies, as well as people employed within the financial services sector.
Nicholas Ryder is Professor in Financial Crime, Bristol Law School, Faculty of Business and Law, the University of the West of England, UK.
Dr. Lachmi Singh is Associate Lecturer, Bristol Law School, University of the West of England, UK.
Legal Protection against Financial Market Abuse: International and Local Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Błachnio-Parzych, Luigi Cornacchia
April 21, 2026
This book examines current challenges in the field of criminal protection against market abuse at the international and local levels. Divided into two parts, the first opens with an examination of general issues including the philosophical foundations of market abuse prohibitions, and the ...
Money Laundering, New Technology and the Law: The Fight Against Financial Crime
1st Edition
By Milind Tiwari
March 17, 2026
This book critically analyses the evolving landscape of money laundering in the context of emerging technologies. Motivated by the need to provide an insight into evolving money laundering typologies and advocate for innovative approaches, such as the Money Laundering Appeal Index (MLAI) and the ...
Trade-Based Money Laundering: Compliance and the Law
1st Edition
By Mariola Marzouk, Branislav Hock
March 03, 2026
This book exposes how illicit finance hides in plain sight within legitimate global trade. Drawing on real-world cases, empirical interviews, and policy analysis, the book reveals how Trade-Based Money Laundering (TBML) exploits regulatory gaps, dynamic supply chains, and the ambiguities of modern ...
Unexplained Wealth and Financial Crime: A Global Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Folashade Adeyemo, Nicholas Ryder
December 29, 2025
This book considers the growing and emerging issue of unexplained wealth and how this issue fits within the larger challenge of financial and economic crime. The collection provides a rich and robust contribution to the dearth of knowledge in this space. Contributions are drawn from legal ...
Beneficial Ownership and Legal Responsibility: Concealment, Avoidance and Impunity
1st Edition
By Paul Beckett
November 28, 2025
This book explores the connection between ownership, on one hand, and immunity from legal responsibility, on the other. It presents a definition of the concept of beneficial ownership, the reasons for its concealment, and failures in international legal structures and arrangements. Globally, states...
Grand Corruption, Unexplained Wealth and the Law: Critical Analysis of Asset Recovery Measures
1st Edition
By Monika Baronak-Atkins
November 13, 2025
The Russia-Ukraine war has highlighted the need to tackle the so-called 'oligarch wealth’. Focusing on the United Kingdom and comparative perspective, this book examines the recent measures taken to combat criminal finance and unexplained wealth. The study critically analyses the ...
Extended Confiscation of Illicit Assets and the Criminal Law: National and EU Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Elżbieta Hryniewicz-Lach
June 30, 2025
The European Union is developing instruments which allow law enforcement and judicial authorities to freeze, seize and confiscate illicit assets in a simplified way. Oversimplification of confiscation procedures may, however, result in violation of fundamental rights and general principles of law ...
Competition Law and Financial Crime: A Comparative Analysis of International Responses to Market Manipulation
1st Edition
By Diana Johnson
February 19, 2025
Financial crime is a significant drain on economies across the world. This book looks at one aspect of financial crime, that of benchmark interest rate manipulation by competing banks, with the aim of identifying the best approach for the United Kingdom to take to the enforcement of laws against ...
Fraud Markers, De-banking, and Financial Crime: A Legal Analysis of Counter-fraud Practices in the UK and Beyond
1st Edition
By Jeremy Asher
February 03, 2025
This book enlightens the reader as to how the financial sector in the UK operates fraud databases to help combat fraud and explains the phenomenon of ‘debanking’. It considers the unique confluence of necessity, a flexible regulatory framework, and recent history of collaboration that now places ...
Counter-Terrorism Financing and Iran
1st Edition
By Zeynab Malakouti Khah
January 30, 2025
This book blends doctrinal and empirical research to examine the phenomenon of counter-terrorism financing at the level of both international and Iranian national law. The work discusses the legitimacy, fairness and effectiveness of the international counter-terrorism financing framework, and then ...
Financial Investigation and Financial Intelligence: A Critical Analysis
1st Edition
By Craig Hughes, David Hicks
December 31, 2024
This book critically analyses the conceptual understanding of financial investigation and financial intelligence among UK law enforcement authorities and their commentators. The work provides a critical review of financial investigation, including international standards, and how it is perceived ...
Stemming Terrorist Finance: The Regulation of Hawala and Alternative Remittance Systems
1st Edition
By Karen Clubb
December 31, 2024
Following the events of 9\11 individual countries and the international community became increasingly concerned about how best to prevent the funding of terrorist groups. Alternative remittance systems such as Hawala, where money is moved informally between a network of brokers in the Middle East, ...