International Monetary and Financial Law
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$260.00 (07)Description
This new book from MOCOMILA, the Monetary Law Committee of the ILA, is a unique collaboration of the top academic and practitioner monetary and financial lawyers from around the world. It examines current legal issues of international monetary and financial law in the light of the current global financial crisis and consequent reforms of international and domestic financial architecture. The book deals with post-crisis financial regulation and supervision, including that of rating agencies and sovereign wealth funds, and financial crisis resolution with an analysis of bank rescue operations.Covering matters of current interest such as central banks, international payments, money laundering, and sovereign debt, this book is for banking and financial practitioners, in-house lawyers, central banks and international financial institutions as well as academics in the field of international and financial law.
Features
- Coverage by world-leading practitioners and academics on financial law from Europe, USA, South America and South Africa, from inside the banking community
- High level analysis of the reform of the supervision and regulation of banks
- Topical coverage of financial crisis resolution
- Discussion of illustrative examples such as the Fortis Case and consideration of the Federal Reserve's response to the crisis
About the Author(s)
Professor Giovanoli is Emeritus Professor at the University of Lausanne and a member of MOCOMILA of which he was chairman from 1995-2005. He spent over 35 years as counsel at the Bank of International Settlements in Basel. He was the editor of International Monetary Law - Issues for the New Millennium (OUP, 2000).
Diego Devos is Deputy General Counsel of the Bank for International Settlements and a member of MOCOMILA. He has written several articles on financial law. The work brings together a group of leading academic and practitioner monetary and financial lawyers from around the world, including general counsels of major financial institutions and central banks, distinguished practitioners in the area of international economic law and prominent academics in this area.
