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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450205603321

Autore

Mwenda Kenneth Kaoma

Titolo

Legal aspects of financial services regulation and the concept of a unified regulator [[electronic resource] /] / Kenneth Kaoma Mwenda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : World Bank, c2006

ISBN

1-280-41370-0

9786610413706

0-8213-6460-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Collana

Law, justice, and development

Disciplina

346.73/082

Soggetti

Financial institutions - Law and legislation

Administrative law

Banks and banking - State supervision

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-152) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Tables and Figures; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Abstract; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Designing a Sound Regulatory Framework for Financial Services Supervision; Chapter 2 Promoting the Independence of a Financial Services Regulator 19; Chapter 3 The Concept of a Unified Financial Services Regulator; Chapter 4 Frameworks for Unified Financial Services Supervision: Latvia, the Scandinavian Countries, and the United Kingdom; Chapter 5 Conclusion; Appendix 1 The Estonian Financial Supervisory Authority Act, 2001

Appendix 2 The Hungarian Financial Supervisory Authority Act, 1999 Appendix 3 The Latvian Law on the Financial and Capital Market Commission 2001; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

That different types of financial services and products continue to spring up in the financial sector of many countries is indicative of the changing landscape of the financial services industry globally. Equally important, as indicators of the evolving trajectory of financial services regulation, are increases in the number of countries where universal banking is practiced and in numbers of parent and subsidiary



companies providing different types of financial services and products. This book is written against that background. A central thesis pursued in the book is that until there is