This is the first book-length treatment of the regulation of financial technology (Fintech) in China. Fintech brings about paradigm changes to the traditional financial system, presenting both challenges and opportunities. At the international level, there has been a fierce competition for the...

Part I. The European Banking Union and the European Union Architecture -- Chapter 1. Multi-Level Governance in Banking Regulation; Rosa M. Lastra -- Chapter 2. European Banking Union within the System of European Banking and Monetary Law; Christos V. Gortsos -- Chapter 3. European Banking Union...

1. The Euro Area Banking System: Where Do We Stand? -- 2. The Main Challenges Facing the Euro Area Banking System -- 3. Non-performing Loans in the Euro Area -- 4. Level 3 Assets and Sovereign Exposure -- 5. Progress on the First Two Pillars of the Banking Union -- 6. The Third Pillar of the...

Chapter 1: Overview of the US Banking System -- Part 1: The Legal Background -- Chapter 2: Banking Laws -- Chapter 3: The Crypto-currency regulations -- Chapter 4: Anti-Money Laundering Laws -- Part 2: Actors: Regulators and Banks -- Chapter 5: The Regulators -- Chapter 6: Commercial Banks and...

1. Introduction -- 2. General Observations -- 3. FinTech and Market-based Financing -- 4. European Approaches to FinTech: The Role of Regulation and the Evolution of Supervision -- 5. FinTech, Chain Transactions and Open Banking -- 6. FinTech Firms -- 7. FinTech and Money -- 8. FinTech, RegTech...

Foreword / François-Charles Laprévote, Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton -- The special nature of banks and its challenges for competition policy / Ioannis Kokkoris -- Competition, stability and moral hazard: the tension between financial regulation and State aid control / Joanna Gray and...