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.
Unexplained Wealth and Financial Crime: A Global Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Folashade Adeyemo, Nicholas Ryder
December 01, 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 ...
Grand Corruption, Unexplained Wealth and the Law: Critical Analysis of Asset Recovery Measures
1st Edition
By Monika Baronak-Atkins
October 24, 2025
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has highlighted so-called `oligarch wealth’ and the need to target particular aspects of financial crime. Focusing on the UK, in comparative perspective, this book examines recent measures taken to combat criminal finance. 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, ...
Organised Crime, Financial Crime, and Criminal Justice: Theoretical Concepts and Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Dan Jasinski, Amber Phillips, Ed Johnston
December 18, 2024
Organised crime and financial crime are pressing global problems, increasingly recognised as policy priorities both by national governments and international bodies and corporations. This proudly interdisciplinary collection is built on the premise that these topics are too often artificially ...
Global Anti-Money Laundering Regulation: Developing Countries Compliance Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Nkechikwu Azinge-Egbiri, Nicholas Ryder, Ehi Eric Esoimeme
November 25, 2024
This book explores the politics of money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF) regulation in several countries across Africa and the Small Island States. Developed countries created the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to combat ML/TF globally. Expectedly, the FATF’s standards mirror ...
International Anti-Money Laundering and Soft Law: Approaches to Regulation
1st Edition
By Emmanuel Ebikake
November 01, 2024
Adopting a mixed-methods approach, this book assesses the role of soft law as a technique to repress and prevent money laundering. The consequence of the combination of a non-traditional subject matter with the limitations of traditional international law instruments has meant that lawmakers ...
Anti-Money Laundering and the Law: Comparative Approaches to Countering Predicate Crimes
1st Edition
By Engin Erken, Umut Turksen
August 27, 2024
This book provides a distinctive and critical analysis of the anti-money laundering (AML) measures that have been put in place in Türkiye and the United Kingdom. The work presents a comparative analysis of if, and to what extent, the AML regimes in these jurisdictions are fit for purpose in ...