Financial Regulation: A Guide to Structural Reform

This volume brings together for the first time leading financial market specialists, regulators and academics to analyse, from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, the reasons underlying these changes, the options available and the experiences in a variety of jurisdictions around the world.

Some of the topics discussed include the international debate over regulatory structure, alternative responses to regulation by multiple authorities and detailed discussion of the many countries' and their financial systems like France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, People's Republic of China, South Africa, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The result of such analysis will be of significance for government officials and regulators facing these issues in their own countries, market professionals (especially legal, compliance and economic) seeking to understand changing in a variety of jurisdictions, and academics and students of financial regulation around the world.

Readership: Financial regulators, government departments, central banks and development agencies who are reforming their regulatory financial structures. This book will also serve as a useful reference for students, lawyers and financial practitioners.