The collapse of trust can be found across all of our institutions but most of all in finance. This Element seeks to answer an existential question: how to rebuild trust in distrusting times? Integrity, responsibility and accountability must be embedded into corporate mission statements, values...

The investigations into the manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) have raised significant questions about how conflicts of interest are managed for both regulated entities, contributing in benchmarks, and their regulators. An alternative framework is under consideration,...

This article discusses a trend towards increased empiricism in enforcement reporting by financial regulators that emphasises greater use of numerical indicators. The article examines how the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the...

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 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...