"The book introduces international developments through a hundred years history of regulation on the City of London. Regulation is shown to be a historically-entrenched masquerade: private regulation behind a public façade. The UK reconciled the coming of democracy with a continuation of...

Following widespread criticism of financial market (self-)regulation, there is a shift in regulatory mood, explored here with reference to evolving conceptions of conflict of interest. The pre-crisis distinction between conflict of interest (normal, manageable) and its exploitation...

What is the relationship between corporate security, its services to private sector companies or to public sectors agencies, and criminality‘ On the basis of interviews carried out primarily in the Netherlands with senior figures in corporate security and with public prosecutors, the reasons...

This paper asks what Capital Markets Union (CMU) means for the future of financial market regulation in the European Union and suggests an answer: the merging of public and private regulation. In the pre-crisis period, public regulation and private regulation of financial markets were separate...

This chapter is concerned with the relations between public and private regulation in respect of hedge funds, which in their own ways govern and re-shape markets, making moral, fairness and efficiency claims and drawing in regulatory resources where they can. Three hedge fund strategies are...