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Bank Funding, Liquidity, and Capital Adequacy

A Law and Finance Approach

by José Gabilondo ...

Series series Elgar Financial Law series
Focusing primarily on the banking system in the United States, this book offers an innovative framework that integrates a depository bank's liquidity and its capital adequacy into a unified notion of funding that helps to explain how the 2007-2008 crisis unfolded, why central banks succeeded in resolving the crisis, and how the conceptual legacy of the crisis and its resolution led to lasting ... Read more

$41.99 CAD

Focusing primarily on the banking system in the United States, this book offers an innovative framework that integrates a depository bank's liquidity and its capital adequacy into a unified notion of funding that helps to explain how the 2007-2008 crisis unfolded, why central banks succeeded in resolving the crisis, and how the conceptual legacy of the crisis and its resolution led to lasting
... Read more
The Code of Capital

How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality

by Katharina Pistor ...

A compelling explanation of how the law shapes the distribution of wealthCapital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth? The Code of Capital explains how capital is created behind closed doors in the offices of private attorneys, and ... Read more

$52.79 CAD

A compelling explanation of how the law shapes the distribution of wealthCapital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth? The Code of Capital explains how capital is created behind closed doors in the offices of private attorneys, and
... Read more
A Very English Deceit

The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble and the First Great Financial Scandal (Text Only)

by Malcolm Balen ...

The ebook of the critically acclaimed popular history book: the story of the South Sea Bubble which in Balen’s hands becomes a morality tale for our times. A classic collision of political ambition, mercenary greed and financial revolution.The early years of the 18th-century produced two great monuments: one, Christopher Wren’s new cathedral of St Paul’s, an enduring testament to principled craft ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

The ebook of the critically acclaimed popular history book: the story of the South Sea Bubble which in Balen’s hands becomes a morality tale for our times. A classic collision of political ambition, mercenary greed and financial revolution.The early years of the 18th-century produced two great monuments: one, Christopher Wren’s new cathedral of St Paul’s, an enduring testament to principled craft
... Read more
Making Money

Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism

by Christine Desan ...

Money travels the modern world in disguise. It looks like a convention of human exchange - a commodity like gold or a medium like language. But its history reveals that money is a very different matter. It is an institution engineered by political communities to mark and mobilize resources. As societies change the way they create money, they change the market itself - along with the rules that ... Read more

$36.79 CAD

Money travels the modern world in disguise. It looks like a convention of human exchange - a commodity like gold or a medium like language. But its history reveals that money is a very different matter. It is an institution engineered by political communities to mark and mobilize resources. As societies change the way they create money, they change the market itself - along with the rules that
... Read more
Strategies for Minimizing Risk Under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and Related Laws

by Mike Koehler ...

Series series Elgar Compliance Guides
In the minds of some, complying with the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and related laws is easy: 'you just don't bribe.' The reality, as sophisticated professionals should know, is not so simple. This book is for professionals across various disciplines who can assist in risk management and want to learn strategies for minimizing risk under aggressively enforced bribery laws.Written by a ... Read more

$96.99 CAD

In the minds of some, complying with the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and related laws is easy: 'you just don't bribe.' The reality, as sophisticated professionals should know, is not so simple. This book is for professionals across various disciplines who can assist in risk management and want to learn strategies for minimizing risk under aggressively enforced bribery laws.Written by a
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The New Stock Market

Law, Economics, and Policy

by Merritt B. Fox, Lawrence Glosten, Gabriel Rauterberg ...

The U.S. stock market has been transformed over the last twenty-five years. Once a market in which human beings traded at human speeds, it is now an electronic market pervaded by algorithmic trading, conducted at speeds nearing that of light. High-frequency traders participate in a large portion of all transactions, and a significant minority of all trade occurs on alternative trading systems ... Read more

$78.99 CAD

The U.S. stock market has been transformed over the last twenty-five years. Once a market in which human beings traded at human speeds, it is now an electronic market pervaded by algorithmic trading, conducted at speeds nearing that of light. High-frequency traders participate in a large portion of all transactions, and a significant minority of all trade occurs on alternative trading systems
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Border Frictions

Gender, Generation and Technology on the Frontline

by Karine Côté-Boucher ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship
How did Canadian border officers come to think of themselves as a "police of the border"? This book tells the story of the shift to law enforcement in Canadian border control. From the 1990s onward, it traces the transformation of a customs organization into a border-policing agency.Border Frictions investigates how considerable political efforts and state resources have made bordering a matter of ... Read more

$86.56 CAD

How did Canadian border officers come to think of themselves as a "police of the border"? This book tells the story of the shift to law enforcement in Canadian border control. From the 1990s onward, it traces the transformation of a customs organization into a border-policing agency.Border Frictions investigates how considerable political efforts and state resources have made bordering a matter of
... Read more
Lombard Street

A Description of the Money Market

by Walter Bagehot ...

Bagehot was one of the first writers to describe and explain the world of international and corporate finance, banking, and money in understandable language. The book was in part a reaction to the 1866 collapse of Overend, Gurney and Company, located at 65 Lombard Street, from which the title draws its name. Bagehot’s description, and knowledge, is timeless and a must for anyone who wants to ... Read more

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Bagehot was one of the first writers to describe and explain the world of international and corporate finance, banking, and money in understandable language. The book was in part a reaction to the 1866 collapse of Overend, Gurney and Company, located at 65 Lombard Street, from which the title draws its name. Bagehot’s description, and knowledge, is timeless and a must for anyone who wants to
... Read more
The Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation and Technology

Edited by Roger Brownsword, Eloise Scotford, Karen Yeung ...

Series series Oxford Handbooks
The variety, pace, and power of technological innovations that have emerged in the 21st Century have been breathtaking. These technological developments, which include advances in networked information and communications, biotechnology, neurotechnology, nanotechnology, robotics, and environmental engineering technology, have raised a number of vital and complex questions. Although these ... Read more

$207.99 CAD

The variety, pace, and power of technological innovations that have emerged in the 21st Century have been breathtaking. These technological developments, which include advances in networked information and communications, biotechnology, neurotechnology, nanotechnology, robotics, and environmental engineering technology, have raised a number of vital and complex questions. Although these
... Read more
Moose Pastures and Mergers

The Ontario Securities Commission and the Regulation of Share Markets in Canada, 1940-1980

by Chris Armstrong ...

Series series Heritage
Long before the spectacular collapse of Bre-X in 1997, the Canadian capital markets had their share of swindlers and crooks. In the boom times after Second World War, hard-sell speculative mining ventures, pushing what often amounted to a few acres of moose pasture, riddled over-the-counter markets and the TSE. It was in this context that the Ontario Securities Commission developed into Canada's ... Read more

$39.99 CAD

Long before the spectacular collapse of Bre-X in 1997, the Canadian capital markets had their share of swindlers and crooks. In the boom times after Second World War, hard-sell speculative mining ventures, pushing what often amounted to a few acres of moose pasture, riddled over-the-counter markets and the TSE. It was in this context that the Ontario Securities Commission developed into Canada's
... Read more
Fund Governance: Legal Duties of Investment Company Directors

by Robert A. Robertson ...

Fund Governance: Legal Duties of Investment Company Directors is a comprehensive, authoritative and practical treatment of the legal obligations of mutual fund and closed-end fund directors, the special duties of independent directors, and fund governance best practices.This treatise provides detailed coverage of a fund board's legal duties under the federal securities laws and state corporate and ... Read more

$1,054.99 CAD

Fund Governance: Legal Duties of Investment Company Directors is a comprehensive, authoritative and practical treatment of the legal obligations of mutual fund and closed-end fund directors, the special duties of independent directors, and fund governance best practices.This treatise provides detailed coverage of a fund board's legal duties under the federal securities laws and state corporate and
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Intermediated Securities

Legal Problems and Practical Issues

Edited by Professor Louise Gullifer, Jennifer Payne ...

Globally, there has been a shift from securities being held directly by an investor, to a situation in which many securities are held via an intermediary. The existence of one or more intermediaries between the investor and the issuer has a potentially significant impact on the rights of the investor, the role and obligations of the issuer, and on the position and responsibilities of the ... Read more

$257.99 CAD

Globally, there has been a shift from securities being held directly by an investor, to a situation in which many securities are held via an intermediary. The existence of one or more intermediaries between the investor and the issuer has a potentially significant impact on the rights of the investor, the role and obligations of the issuer, and on the position and responsibilities of the
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Anlegerleitbild und Anlegerschutz im Kapitalmarktrecht

by Ivo Frohmüller ...

Series Book 109 - Frankfurter wirtschaftsrechtliche Studien
Die Arbeit untersucht, ob die Fragmentierung des Kapitalmarktrechts, die Folgen der Finanzmarktkrise und die Behavioral Finance-Forschung eine Modernisierung des Anlegerleitbildes für einen wirksamen Schutz des Privatanlegers erforderlich machen. Hierzu überprüft der Autor, ob de lege lata ein Anlegerleitbild besteht, das Gesetzgebung und Rechtsprechung allgemein anerkennen. Er postuliert de lege ... Read more

$86.99 CAD

Die Arbeit untersucht, ob die Fragmentierung des Kapitalmarktrechts, die Folgen der Finanzmarktkrise und die Behavioral Finance-Forschung eine Modernisierung des Anlegerleitbildes für einen wirksamen Schutz des Privatanlegers erforderlich machen. Hierzu überprüft der Autor, ob de lege lata ein Anlegerleitbild besteht, das Gesetzgebung und Rechtsprechung allgemein anerkennen. Er postuliert de lege
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Capital Markets, Derivatives and the Law

by Alan Rechtschaffen ...

President Obama recently called for a new financial regulation system in the United States. In order to understand the intricacies of new regulation, individuals must have a strong foundation in how capital markets function as well as how financial instruments and derivatives work. Capital Markets, Derivatives, and the Law provides readers with the foundation necessary to make informed, well ... Read more

$179.99 CAD

President Obama recently called for a new financial regulation system in the United States. In order to understand the intricacies of new regulation, individuals must have a strong foundation in how capital markets function as well as how financial instruments and derivatives work. Capital Markets, Derivatives, and the Law provides readers with the foundation necessary to make informed, well
... Read more
Informationspflichten im Aktienrecht

Das aktienrechtliche Informationssystem und die Neuregelungen im ARUG II

by Erik Jensen ...

Series Book 29 - Forum Unternehmens-, Steuer- und Bilanzrecht
Informationen stellen insbesondere in der Wirtschaft und bei der Teilhabe an Unternehmen die Grundlage für fundierte Entscheidungen dar. Es verwundert daher nicht, dass in Rechtspolitik und täglicher Praxis der Kapitalgesellschaften die Thematik der Informationsbereitstellung eine zentrale Rolle spielt. Aktuelle Brisanz erlangte das Themenfeld rund um Informationspflichten der Aktiengesellschaft ... Read more

$93.99 CAD

Informationen stellen insbesondere in der Wirtschaft und bei der Teilhabe an Unternehmen die Grundlage für fundierte Entscheidungen dar. Es verwundert daher nicht, dass in Rechtspolitik und täglicher Praxis der Kapitalgesellschaften die Thematik der Informationsbereitstellung eine zentrale Rolle spielt. Aktuelle Brisanz erlangte das Themenfeld rund um Informationspflichten der Aktiengesellschaft
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Die Europaeisierung der Investitionskontrolle

by Maximilian Schipke ...

Series Book 6782 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften Recht
Die Investitionskontrolle ist ein vergleichsweise neues Regulierungsinstrument, das rasant an Bedeutung gewinnt. Mit der Verordnung (EU) 2019/452 hat die Europäische Union erstmals einen Rahmen für nationale Investitionskontrollen verabschiedet und diese durch eine Rückermächtigung legalisiert. Die Arbeit untersucht die primärrechtlichen Vorgaben für Investitionskontrollen auf nationaler und ... Read more

$86.99 CAD

Die Investitionskontrolle ist ein vergleichsweise neues Regulierungsinstrument, das rasant an Bedeutung gewinnt. Mit der Verordnung (EU) 2019/452 hat die Europäische Union erstmals einen Rahmen für nationale Investitionskontrollen verabschiedet und diese durch eine Rückermächtigung legalisiert. Die Arbeit untersucht die primärrechtlichen Vorgaben für Investitionskontrollen auf nationaler und
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Bieterkooperation und Bietergemeinschaft bei der Uebernahme boersennotierter Unternehmen

by Lasse Nitschmann ...

Series Book 6851 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften Recht
Gegenstand der Untersuchung ist die Kooperation mehrerer Bieter bei öffentlichen Erwerbs- und Übernahmeverfahren in der spezifischen Form der Bietergemeinschaft, die in § 2 Abs. 4 WpÜG angelegt ist. Die Untersuchung nimmt die Gründe und Formen einer bieterseitigen Kooperation bei öffentlichen Angeboten unter Berücksichtigung ausgewählter Fallbeispiele aus der Übernahmepraxis in den Blick, ... Read more

$62.99 CAD

Gegenstand der Untersuchung ist die Kooperation mehrerer Bieter bei öffentlichen Erwerbs- und Übernahmeverfahren in der spezifischen Form der Bietergemeinschaft, die in § 2 Abs. 4 WpÜG angelegt ist. Die Untersuchung nimmt die Gründe und Formen einer bieterseitigen Kooperation bei öffentlichen Angeboten unter Berücksichtigung ausgewählter Fallbeispiele aus der Übernahmepraxis in den Blick,
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Algo Bots and the Law

Technology, Automation, and the Regulation of Futures and Other Derivatives

by Gregory Scopino ...

The trillion-dollar markets for futures, swaps, commodity options, and related derivatives are extremely important to the global economy because, among other things, they influence the prices that people pay for everything from heating oil and bread to the interest rates connected to mortgages and student loans. Due to technological advances in automation and artificial intelligence, these markets ... Read more

$51.99 CAD

The trillion-dollar markets for futures, swaps, commodity options, and related derivatives are extremely important to the global economy because, among other things, they influence the prices that people pay for everything from heating oil and bread to the interest rates connected to mortgages and student loans. Due to technological advances in automation and artificial intelligence, these markets
... Read more
The Power of Standards

Hybrid Authority and the Globalisation of Services

by Jean-Christophe Graz ...

Standards often remain unseen, yet they play a fundamental part in the organisation of contemporary capitalism and society at large. What form of power do they epitomise? Why have they become so prominent? Are they set to be as important for the globalisation of services as for manufactured goods? Graz draws on international political economy and cognate fields to present strong theoretical ... Read more

$122.99 CAD

Standards often remain unseen, yet they play a fundamental part in the organisation of contemporary capitalism and society at large. What form of power do they epitomise? Why have they become so prominent? Are they set to be as important for the globalisation of services as for manufactured goods? Graz draws on international political economy and cognate fields to present strong theoretical
... Read more
Liability of Asset Managers

Edited by Danny Busch, Deborah DeMott ...

Given the international nature of the asset management industry, lawyers representing investors, asset managers, and regulators are often confronted with asset management agreements governed by foreign law. This book provides the necessary points of law and practice in the leading jurisdictions allowing lawyers to identify the main pitfalls concerning the foreign law in question. This book is the ... Read more

$274.99 CAD

Given the international nature of the asset management industry, lawyers representing investors, asset managers, and regulators are often confronted with asset management agreements governed by foreign law. This book provides the necessary points of law and practice in the leading jurisdictions allowing lawyers to identify the main pitfalls concerning the foreign law in question. This book is the
... Read more
Transnational Securities Law

Edited by Thomas Keijser ...

Bringing together a team of globally renowned academics and expert practitioners in the field, Transnational Securities Law , Second Edition, presents a comprehensive analysis of the international harmonization of the law relating to securities. The book focuses on private law, insolvency law, and conflict-of-laws issues, as well as providing in-depth guidance on recent regulatory and ... Read more

$167.99 CAD

Bringing together a team of globally renowned academics and expert practitioners in the field, Transnational Securities Law , Second Edition, presents a comprehensive analysis of the international harmonization of the law relating to securities. The book focuses on private law, insolvency law, and conflict-of-laws issues, as well as providing in-depth guidance on recent regulatory and
... Read more
Financial Collateral

Law and Practice

Edited by Matthias Haentjens ...

This is the first book to analyse and draw together all of the property law and regulatory and contractual issues relevant to financial collateral transactions. Collateralized finance transactions played a major role in the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the near-failure of AIG during the early months of the global financial crisis, and are being increasingly recognised as being integral to the ... Read more

$165.99 CAD

This is the first book to analyse and draw together all of the property law and regulatory and contractual issues relevant to financial collateral transactions. Collateralized finance transactions played a major role in the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the near-failure of AIG during the early months of the global financial crisis, and are being increasingly recognised as being integral to the
... Read more
Preventing Terrorist Attacks at Sea

Maritime Terrorism Risk and International Law

by Robin Bowley ...

Series series Routledge Research in Terrorism and the Law
Over recent decades, it has been widely recognised that terrorist attacks at sea could result in major casualties and cause significant disruptions to the free flow of international shipping.After discussing the overlaps and distinctions between piracy and maritime terrorism, this book considers how the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code, and other vessel identification and ... Read more

$83.99 CAD

Over recent decades, it has been widely recognised that terrorist attacks at sea could result in major casualties and cause significant disruptions to the free flow of international shipping.After discussing the overlaps and distinctions between piracy and maritime terrorism, this book considers how the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code, and other vessel identification and
... Read more
Darkness by Design

The Hidden Power in Global Capital Markets

by Walter Mattli ...

An exposé of fragmented trading platforms, poor governance, and exploitative practices in today's capital marketsCapital markets have undergone a dramatic transformation in the past two decades. Algorithmic high-speed supercomputing has replaced traditional floor trading and human market makers, while centralized exchanges that once ensured fairness and transparency have fragmented into a dizzying ... Read more

$25.29 CAD

An exposé of fragmented trading platforms, poor governance, and exploitative practices in today's capital marketsCapital markets have undergone a dramatic transformation in the past two decades. Algorithmic high-speed supercomputing has replaced traditional floor trading and human market makers, while centralized exchanges that once ensured fairness and transparency have fragmented into a dizzying
... Read more

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