This book examines how cryptocurrencies based on blockchain technologies fit into existing general law categories of public and private law. The book takes the common law systems of the United Kingdom as the centre of its study but extends beyond the UK to show how cryptocurrenc…
"From the invention of interest in Mesopotamia and the origin of paper money in China, to the creation of mutual funds, inflation-indexed bonds, and global financial securities, here is a sweeping survey of financial innovations that have changed the world." "Written by a distin…
This new book analyses the challenge of how money (including coins, notes, credit, and virtual currency) should be defined from both a legal and an economic perspective.0As new electronic payment mechanisms proliferate, this question of definition is likely to become an importan…
"The leading authority on central banking and financial regulation Includes detailed analysis of public international law aspects and the role of central banks and institutions such as the IMF Provides contextualised discussion of regulatory issues such as the new legislation de…
This book constitutes a short history of the IMF's evolution. The attianment of the initial objectives in the Fund's first twenty years is the story told in seven articles of Part One. The first describes the Bretton Woods Conference; the second lists and explains the initial ob…
This book expands the theory that poverty in the world's poorest regions could be eased by providing loans to microentrepreneurs. This volume provides an analysis of this theory and offers policy recommendations for practitioners in this field.
"This new book is full of original insight and analysis and will be an invaluable resource for lawyers, both scholarly and practitioner based, with an interest in economic crime as well as policymakers and compliance officers within banks and other financial institutions."--Jack…
