As globalization gather pace, national economies are becoming more internationalized and inter-dependent, and the power of individual nation states is being diminished in relative terms. Increasingly individual countries are less able to control their national economies. One consequence of these...

This article surveys the historical development of financial services regulation in Great Britain, especially the social conditions and power relations that have shaped the evolution of British financial markets. The analysis specifically focuses upon the role of special interest groups and how...

This article traces the development of UK financial services regulation from the Middle Ages up to the time of Big Bang, by examining the establishment of the City of London's financial markets and significant milestones in the City's regulatory history. The analysis shows how the City has...

This article explains the origins of the white collar crime debate, then considers some of the dilemmas that are shared by white collar criminologists and regulatory professionals, before detailing some areas in which criminological research has relevance for financial services regulation

This analysis argues that the development of UK financial services law is effectively the history of English financial services law and that English financial services regulation has largely been concerned with the City of London. The regulation of the UK financial services sector is reasonably...

This paper discusses some of the past and contemporary problems of regulating financial markets and company law reform from a socio-legal perspective. Many contemporary regulatory dilemmas of markets (financial or otherwise), such as jurisdictional scope and promoting compliance, are long...

This paper discusses the regulatory role of certain international organizations in the financial services sector. The regulatory initiatives of some organizations such as the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) have been...

This article examines risk issues in financial services. It discusses some of the specific risk management strategies that financial institutions and financial services professionals might utilise, followed by analysis of some of the broader influences that help to shape discourses on how best...

This chapter is based on the proposition that managing conflicts of interest and other potentially problematic regulatory issues, are, and probably always have been, integral to how individuals, groups and societies manage their trading relationships with other individuals, groups and societies....