This series explores the key developments in financial and banking law, offering critical analyses of legislation and regulatory frameworks at the international regional and domestic levels. Legislation, case law, regulatory structures and institutions are discussed from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. The books in this series provide valuable and far-reaching investigations into the challenges of regulating finance and banking in a fast-moving and interconnected global economy.
By Iwa Salami
October 11, 2024
This book comprehensively analyses financial technology law and regulation in Africa and provides domestic and regional perspectives on regulating FinTech in Africa. It studies policy considerations that can assist African policymakers in facilitating a balanced regulatory approach that does not ...
By Ligia Catherine Arias Barrera
July 05, 2024
This book weaves together a comprehensive legal analysis of sustainable finance regimes governing Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) derivatives, with insightful sociological perspectives on risks and uncertainties. Sustainable finance offers a unique chance to channel capital towards ...
By Mohammed Khair Alshaleel
May 27, 2024
This book provides a detailed analysis of mutual fund regulations and governance in the UK from the investor protection perspective. It comprehensively describes mutual funds by their function, social utility, and legal attributes, examining the level of protection provided to retail investors ...
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By Cătălin Gabriel Stănescu
May 27, 2024
Due to the absence of due process and other procedural guarantees generally offered by judicial enforcement, informal debt collection practices (IDCPs) can become abusive, harming both consumers and the economy by threatening consumers’ physical, psychological, and economic wellbeing; exposing ...
By Steve Kourabas
January 29, 2024
Global Finance in the 21st Century: Stability and Sustainability in a Fragmenting World explains finance and its regulation after the global financial crisis. The book introduces non-finance scholars into the wider debate regarding the conduct and regulation of finance to encourage broader ...
By Phoebus L. Athanassiou, Angelos T. Vouldis
January 29, 2024
The European Sovereign Debt Crisis: Breaking the Vicious Circle between Sovereigns and Banks explains why the euro area’s progress towards reining in the risks arising from the well-documented bi-directional financial contagion transmission mechanism that links sovereigns to commercial banks has ...
By Pierre de Gioia Carabellese, Camilla Della Giustina
March 31, 2023
The book The Law of Securitisations: From Crises to Techno-sustainability provides a full and detailed account of the EU legislation in the area of structured finance with the new legal rules dissected and discussed in their full extent. Securitisation transactions have been identified in the ...
By Nwanneka Ezechukwu
March 17, 2023
Mobile technology offers an innovative and cost-effective channel for delivering a range of financial services, including mobile payments. In some jurisdictions, mobile payments simply provide a convenient option for facilitating payment transactions. In other jurisdictions, mobile payments are ...
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By Cătălin-Gabriel Stănescu, Asress Adimi Gikay
January 09, 2023
This book addresses the questions of discrimination, vulnerable consumers, and financial inclusion in the light of the emerging legal, socioeconomic, and technological challenges. New technologies – such as artificial intelligence-driven consumer credit risk assessment and Fintech ...
By Augustine Edobor Arimoro
January 09, 2023
Over the years, a shortage of funds has resulted in a huge deficit in government budgets for infrastructure, especially in developing economies. It is no longer feasible for governments to bear the entire burden of funding public infrastructure. Given that an inadequate supply of public ...
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By Kayode Akintola, Folashade Adeyemo
December 30, 2022
The subject of bank stability has been under a great amount of political and legislative scrutiny since the mid-2007 to late-2009 global financial crisis. However, these efforts have centred on developed economies. Little coverage is given to strategies adopted by many developing economies. While ...
By Sebastian Grund
December 30, 2022
The book sheds light on the perhaps most important legal conundrum in the context of sovereign debt restructuring: the holdout creditor problem. Absent an international bankruptcy regime for sovereigns, holdout creditors may delay or even thwart the efficient resolution of sovereign debt crises by ...