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.
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 ...
Tax Evasion and the Law: A Comparative Analysis of the UK and USA
1st Edition
By Sam Bourton
June 18, 2024
This book provides a critical and contemporary evaluation of the laws and enforcement policies pertaining to tax evasion in the United Kingdom (UK) and United States (US). Since the inception of taxes, revenue collection authorities around the world have attempted to address the seemingly perennial...
Illicit Finance and the Law in the Commonwealth Caribbean: The Myth of Paradise
1st Edition
By Rohan D. Clarke
May 27, 2024
This book provokes fresh ways of thinking about small developing States within the transnational legal order for combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism and proliferation (TAMLO). From the global wars on drugs and terror to journalistic exposés such as the ‘Paradise’, ‘Panama’ and...
FinTech, Artificial Intelligence and the Law: Regulation and Crime Prevention
1st Edition
Edited
By Alison Lui, Nicholas Ryder
January 09, 2023
This collection critically explores the use of financial technology (FinTech) and artificial intelligence (AI) in the financial sector and discusses effective regulation and the prevention of crime. Focusing on crypto-assets, InsureTech and the digitisation of financial dispute resolution, the book...
Offshore Financial Centres and the Law: Suspect Wealth in British Overseas Territories
1st Edition
By Dominic Thomas-James
January 09, 2023
This book considers the ability of island jurisdictions with financial centres to meet the expectations of the international community in addressing the threats posed to themselves and others by their innocent (or otherwise) facilitation of the receipt of suspect wealth. In the global financial ...
Combating Corruption in the Middle East: A Socio-Legal Study of Kuwait
1st Edition
By Khaled S. Al-Rashidi
September 26, 2022
This book examines the phenomenon of ‘grand corruption’ in Kuwait and the pattern in the wider region. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the work places corruption in its sociological, political and economic context to explore the relationship between the characteristics of Kuwait as a state ...
Regulating and Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing: The Law in Emerging Economies
1st Edition
By Nkechikwu Azinge-Egbiri
September 26, 2022
This book analytically reviews the impact of the global anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) framework on the compliance trajectory of a number of jurisdictions to this framework. The work begins by examining the international financial sector reform and its evolution to...
Anti-Money Laundering Compliance and the Legal Profession
1st Edition
By Sarah Kebbell
August 01, 2022
Money laundering is a global issue and there is evidence that the services provided by the legal profession may be misused to launder the proceeds of crime. This book explores the experiences of professionals within Top 50 law firms when seeking to comply with the UK’s anti-money laundering (AML) ...
Lawyers and the Proceeds of Crime: The Facilitation of Money Laundering and its Control
1st Edition
By Katie Benson
December 13, 2021
The role played by legal professionals in the laundering of criminal proceeds generated by others has become a priority concern for authorities at national and international levels. This ground-breaking book presents an in-depth empirical analysis of the nature of lawyers’ involvement in the ...






