Product Description: What role should regulation play in financial markets? What have been the ramifications of financial regulation? To answer these and other questions regarding the efficacy of legislation on financial markets, this book examines the impact of the Gramm Leach Bliley Act (GLBA), also called the Financial Modernization Act of 1999, which fundamentally changed the financial landscape in the United States...read more

Product Description: This handbook provides you with a thorough history of banking law and will guide you through today's system of financial regulation that is unlike anything else in the world. Banks are special entities, and lawyers representing banks need to understand their client's specific structure, importance of capital, and the new language that has formed...read more

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Product Description: This title examines depository institution regulation and how federal statutes governing banking have been subject to constant amendment in recent years, especially since the mortgage market collapse and the ensuing worldwide crisis...read more

Product Description: In 1933, during the first 100 days of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, the Securities Act of 1933 and the Glass-Steagall Act (GSA) were enacted, setting up a pervasive regulatory scheme for the public offering of securities and generally prohibiting commercial banks from underwriting and dealing in those securities...read more

Product Description: <p> The <b>Fourth Edition</b> of <b>The Law of Banking and Financial Institutions</b> brings exciting renovations to a classic casebook. Comprehensive updating is just the beginning. The authors have expanded the old structure to include more coverage of non-bank financial institutions, such as insurance companies and mutual funds...read more

Product Description: With almost 6,300 commercial banks, significantly more than in any other country, the world of US banking is unique, fascinating, and always in flux. Two principal pieces of legislation have shaped the banking structure in this country: The McFadden Act of 1927, which prohibited banks from branching into other states, and The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which separated commercial and investment banking activities...read more