1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910151593303321

Autore

Arora Anu

Titolo

Banking law. / / Anu Arora

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Harlow, England : , : Pearson Education, Limited, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-4082-9786-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (769 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

346.41/082

Soggetti

Banking law - England

Banks and banking, International - Law and legislation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

What is money? -- The role of the City of London as a financial centre and the international financial institutions -- The corporate governance failings in financial institutions and directors legal liability -- The UK response to the credit crisis -- Bank regulation and supervision -- The banker and customer relationship and the unfair terms in banking contracts -- Duties arising under the banker and customer relationship -- The bank as the fiduciary -- The nature of the overdrawn account and the bank's self-help remedies -- Bills of exchange -- Cheques as negotiable instruments -- Third party rights : wrongful dealings and liability -- Money laundering -- Nature and type of electronic funds transfers systems -- Plastic money -- Overdrafts and bank loans -- Recovery of money paid by mistake -- Securities for bank borrowing.

Sommario/riassunto

Exploring all aspects of domestic, European and international laws and regulation, Banking Law is essential reading for students and practitioners alike. From examining the academic debates, policy considerations and practical influences underpinning the regulations, this text offers you a truly socio-economic and contextual approach to a subject which impacts on the daily lives of people worldwide.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910758487003321

Titolo

Traffic Flow Theory

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : TU Delft Open, 2021

©2018

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Engineering

Civil

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1 Variables -- 2 Cumulative curves -- 3 Relationships of traffic variables -- 4 Shock wave theory -- 5 Shockwave theory: moving bottlenecks -- 6 Traffic states and Phenomena -- 7 Car-following -- 8 Microscopic lane change models -- 9 Use of traffic models -- 10 Macroscopic Dynamic Traffic flow Models -- 11 An Introduction to Node Models -- 12 Macroscopic fundamental diagram -- 13 Method of characteristics -- 14 Headway models -- 15 Traffic state dynamics in three representations --

Sommario/riassunto

Traffic processes cause several problems in the world. Traffic delay, pollution are some of it. They can be solved with the right road design or traffic management (control) measure. Before implementing these designs of measures, though, their effect could be tested. To this end, knowledge of traffic flow theory is needed.