Product Description: A number of changes have been made to the supervision and regulation of banks as a result of the recent financial meltdown. Some are for the better, such as the Basel III rules for increasing the quality and quantity of capital in banks, but legal changes on both sides of the Atlantic now make it much more difficult to resolve failing banks by means of taxpayer funded bail-outs and could hinder bank resolution in future financial crises...read more

Product Description: Were the radical steps taken by the Treasury Department and Federal Reserve to avert the financial crisis legal? When and why did political elites and the general public question the legitimacy of the government's responses to the crisis?In To The Edge: Legality, Legitimacy, and the Responses to the 2008 Financial Crisis, Philip Wallach chronicles and examines the legal and political controversies surrounding the government's responses to the recent financial crisis...read more

Product Description: Cutting-edge financial services technology can facilitate transactions without regard to the complex regulatory structure governing the industry. From mobile banking to virtual currency and beyond, FinTech Law: A Guide to Technology Law in the Financial Services Industry explains the issues raised and offers excellent practical advice on how to address them...read more

Product Description: Financial Services Enforcement and Compliance provides an authoritative, insider's perspective on navigating recent developments in the financial services industry. Featuring experienced partners from law firms across the nation, these experts discuss the financial requirements of various industries and compare US market activity with global markets...read more

Product Description: Investment Adviser's Legal and Compliance Guide is an invaluable guide written to assist attorneys and advisers in both drafting their policies and procedures and reviewing them annually. In addition, the book serves as a practical tool for experienced attorneys and compliance officers for their changing responsibilities under new rules adopted under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as well as new staff interpretations and guidance...read more

Product Description: This is a practical guide to help attorneys in the financial services industry, and financial industry professionals on complexities of this far-reaching law. Divided into eight parts, each section represents a financial services sector where the book addresses the factual and regulatory background behind the pertinent Dodd-Frank provisions, the known changes in federal law caused by Dodd-Frank, and any upcoming deadlines for new regulations that will implement the statutes...read more

Product Description: Financial derivatives allow users to manage or hedge business risks that arise from volatile commodity prices, interest rates, foreign currencies and a wide range of other variables. Derivatives also permit potentially risky speculation on future trends in those rates and prices...read more

Product Description: Title IX of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act deals with investor protection and securities regulation. Parts of Title IX address aspects of the securities markets that are commonly viewed as directly involved in the financial crisis, such as credit ratings and securitisation...read more

Product Description: An executive overview of the new Financial Regulations Act This book provides an executive summary of the newly passed Financial Regulations Act. It examines the most important sections of the Act, how it impacts the financial industry, as well as what executives must know and do in order to comply with the Act...read more

Product Description: The good, the bad, and the scary of Washington's attempt to reform Wall Street The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is Washington's response to America's call for a new regulatory framework for the twenty-first century...read more

Product Description: Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: Law, Explanation and Analysis provides comprehensive analysis of this sweeping new banking and securities legislation. These historic reforms will transform the way banks, hedge funds, credit rating agencies, broker-dealers, investment advisers, accountants, public companies and other financial institutions—and the attorneys who advise these entities—operate...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: This book presents economics as a serious, lively, and evolving science. Its goal is to help the student to develop the "economic way of thinking" and to gain insights into how the economy works and how it might be made to work better...read more