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Technology is redefining financial services-including the way
actors make and settle payments, raise capital, extend loans, and
memorialize increasingly complex relationships. At the same time,
new innovations-from cryptocurrencies to marketplace lending,
robo-advising, and mobile payments-are creating novel regulatory
issues for anti-money laundering requirements and cybersecurity.
This Nutshell provides an overview of some the key developments
reshaping finance-and the rules deployed to oversee them. Chris
Brummer's Fintech Nutshell has been named by BookAuthority one of
the 20 Best New Fintech Books to Read in 2020!
Starting with an overview of the development of money laundering
and the work of international organisations, International Guide to
Money Laundering Law and Practice is a unique publication providing
a detailed insight into the background of money laundering
operations, clearly explaining the anti-money laundering laws and
regulations in 35 key global financial centres throughout the
world. In addition, there are four chapters considering money
laundering law and practice in the UK with the emphasis on the
legal and regulatory framework and include: a chapter on the
accounting and auditing issues; and a chapter on confiscating the
proceeds of crime written by Jonathan Fisher, QC, a leading
barrister specialising in corporate and financial crime, proceeds
of crime and tax cases. It also contains a chapter covering
international responses and initiatives to money laundering. The
fifth edition covers, amongst other things, the implementation of
the Fifth EU Money Laundering Directive and the Criminal Finances
Bill. Written by local experts and edited by a team from Baker
McKenzie's Financial Services Group, International Guide to Money
Laundering Law and Practice is the leading, authoritative text on
this heavily regulated area of law. It is essential for all banking
and finance practitioners involved in anti-money laundering, banks,
compliance officers and regulators in order to keep abreast of the
developments and compliant with the law and regulations
internationally.
The Law of Hedge Funds is a concise yet comprehensive guide to the
law in this area. Practical and user-friendly, it covers all the
relevant legal aspects involved, including choice of jurisdiction
and vehicle, service providers, prime brokerage, fund directors,
the regulatory environment in the UK, the EU and the USA, marketing
in various different jurisdictions, taxation, employment and the
in-house perspective. This second edition has been updated to take
account of the changes introduced by the Alternative Investment
Funds Managers Directive (AIFMD).
Secured transactions law has been subjected to a close scrutiny
over the last two decades. One of the main reasons for this is the
importance of availability of credit and the consequent need to
reform collateral laws in order to improve access to finance. The
ability to give security effectively influences not only the cost
of credit but also, in some cases, whether credit will be available
at all. This requires rules that are transparent and readily
accessible to non-lawyers as well as rules that recognise the needs
of small and medium-sized enterprises. This book critically engages
with the challenges posed by inefficient secured credit laws. It
offers a comparative analysis of the reasons and the needs for a
secured transactions law reform, as well as discussion of the steps
taken in many common law, civil law and mixed law jurisdictions.
The book, written under the auspices of the Secured Transactions
Law Reform Project, informs the debate about reform and advances
novel arguments written by world renowned experts that will build
upon the existing literature, and as such will be of interest to
academics, legal practitioners and the judiciary involved in
secured transactions law around the world. The text considers
reform initiatives that have taken place up to the end of April
2016. It has not been possible to incorporate events since then
into the discussion. However, notable developments include the
banks decree passed by the Italian Government on 29th June 2016,
and the adoption of the Model Law on Secured Transactions by
UNCITRAL on 1st July 2016.
This book examines how cryptocurrencies based on blockchain
technologies fit into existing general law categories of public and
private law. The book takes the common law systems of the United
Kingdom as the centre of its study but extends beyond the UK to
show how cryptocurrencies would be accommodated in some Western
European and East Asian legal systems outside the common law
tradition. By investigating traditional conceptions of money in
public law and private law the work examines the difficulties of
fitting cryptocurrencies within those approaches and models.
Fundamental questions regarding issues of ownership, transfer,
conflict of laws, and taxation are addressed with a view to
equipping the reader with the tools to answer common transactional
questions about cryptocurrencies. The international contributor
team uses the common law systems of the United Kingdom as a basis
for the analysis, but also looks comparatively to other systems
across the wider common law and civil law world to provide detailed
examination of the legal problems encountered.
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