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.
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...
Beneficial Ownership and Legal Responsibility: Concealment, Avoidance and Impunity
1st Edition
By Paul Beckett
March 12, 2024
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...
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) ...
Financial Crime and Corporate Misconduct: A Critical Evaluation of Fraud Legislation
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris Monaghan, Nicola Monaghan
February 25, 2020
The Fraud Act 2006 presented a wholesale reform of the pre-existing deception offences under the Theft Act 1968 and Theft Act 1978. This edited collection offers a critical evaluation of fraud legislation and provides a review of the Fraud Act 2006 within the context of measures introduced within ...
The Financial Crisis and White Collar Crime - Legislative and Policy Responses: A Critical Assessment
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicholas Ryder, Umut Turksen, Jon Tucker
January 08, 2018
This book offers a commentary on the responses to white collar crime since the financial crisis. The book brings together experts from academia and practice to analyse the legal and policy responses that have been put in place following the 2008 financial crisis. The book looks at a range of topics...
The Financial War on Terrorism: A Review of Counter-Terrorist Financing Strategies Since 2001
1st Edition
By Nicholas Ryder
February 07, 2017
On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists committed the largest and deadliest terrorist attack in the United States of America. The response from the inter-national community, and in particular the US, was swift. President George Bush declared what has commonly been referred to as either the ‘War on ...
Fighting Financial Crime in the Global Economic Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicholas Ryder, Umut Turksen, Sabine Hassler
August 03, 2016
Many commentators, regulatory agencies and politicians have blamed the risky behaviour of both financial institutions and their actors for the collapse of the United States sub-prime mortgage market which in turn precipitated the global 'Credit Crunch'. This edited volume explores how financial ...