The United Kingdom is an indisputable hub for Islamic Finance in Europe while English common law is widely used for securitisations, including Islamic securitisations of which products are asset-backed securities called “Sukuk”. Thus, the question of whether the applicable EU law provides a...

The issue of Europe has vexed successive Conservative Prime Ministers, with David Cameron no exception. Pressure from within and without his party induced David Cameron to commit to holding an in/out referendum on EU membership. This piece uses discourse analysis and the recent sociological turn...

We examine whether rating shopping and rating catering behaviours, two sources of credit rating inflation, are still prevalent in the post-Global Financial Crisis (GFC) period after the introduction of new regulations regarding Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs) in the European securitisation market....

The objective of this paper is to identify current problems and propose legal and regulatory reforms to Colombia's securitisation framework that would enhance efficiency, mitigate risks and allow the development of innovative types of securitisations. To reach that, an analysis of the...

The legal structure of Chinese Banking securitsation has been evolving cautiously. Since 1997 until recntly, the Bank of China (BOC) had the monopoly in selling and purchasing forward contracts in China; other Chinese banks were excluded from entering into forward contracts. However, the People's...