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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...