Exploring all aspects of domestic, European and international laws and regulation, Banking Law is essential reading for students and practitioners alike. From examining the academic debates, policy considerations and practical influences underpinning the regulations, this text offers you a truly socio-economic and contextual approach to a subject which impacts on the daily lives of people worldwide.
Anu Arora is a Professor at the University of Liverpool. She has written extensively in the area of banking law and is widely published in a range of academic journals, with research typically focusing on banking regulation, the bank/customer relationship, commercial letters of credit and some aspects of company law. In addition, she is the author of 'Corporate banking law', published by the Institute of Financial Services and the banking law subject area editor for the Journal of Business Law.
Chapter 1 - What is money?
Chapter 2 - The role of the City of London as a financial centre and the international financial institutions
Chapter 3 - The corporate governance failings in financial institutions and directors legal liability
Chapter 4 - UK response to the credit crisis
Chapter 5 - Bank regulation and supervision
Chapter 6 - The banker and customer relationship and the unfair terms in banking contracts
Chapter 7 - Duties arising under the banker and customer relationship
Chapter 8 - The bank as the fiduciary
Chapter 9 - The nature of the overdrawn account and the bank's self-help remedies
Chapter 10 - Bills of exchange
Chapter 11 - Cheques as negotiable instruments
Chapter 12 - Third party rights: wrongful dealings and liability
Chapter 13 - Money laundering
Chapter 14 - Nature and type of electronic funds transfers systems
Chapter 15 - Plastic money
Chapter 16 - Overdrafts and bank loans
Chapter 17 - Recovery of money paid by mistake
Chapter 18 - Securities for bank borrowing
