Since the 1990's the global capital movements in the world economy took new direction: the previous scruples of the activity of transnational companies have disappeared. The global phenomena of market-oriented liberal economic policies swept aside the formal objection and uncertainty against...

As the world’s leading international financial centre, London faces fascinating opportunities and significant challenges in coming years as a result of Brexit, increased international competition from other global financial centres, and the changing face of finance itself. The City should...

It is now six years since a devastating financial and economic crisis rocked the global economy. Supported strongly by the G20 process, international regulators led by the Financial Stability Board have been working hard ever since to develop new regulatory standards designed to prevent a...

This chapter reviews statutory and court sanctioned private regulatory frameworks affecting the creation of private equity (PE) funds and their primary activity of acquiring corporate enterprises. The chapter reviews U.S. legislation regulating securities, investment companies, and tender...

Using a novel cross-European dataset on bank internationalization, the paper accounts for both organizational and geographic complexity and evaluates its impact on systemic risk and how both the 2008–09 global financial crisis and the 2010–11 European sovereign debt crisis might have...