"The book introduces international developments through a hundred years history of regulation on the City of London. Regulation is shown to be a historically-entrenched masquerade: private regulation behind a public façade. The UK reconciled the coming of democracy with a continuation of...

This response to a Communication of the European Commission on ‘reinforcing sanctioning regimes in financial services' supports the emphasis placed on more intensive investigation and detection. Sanctions remain hypothetical in the absence of detection, which is unlikely without serious...

Every narrative has a pivot, key assumption or foundational myth, which threads and holds together diverse content that might otherwise, because of its complexities and scope, become too disjointed to make sense. Before the crisis, the foundational myth was that expertise could steer the ship:...