This introductory paper explores the general nature of financial regulation as a set of behavioral rules. Public authorities impose these rules on market participants. The aim is to influence market participants' behavior in order to achieve certain regulatory goals. The financial crisis has...

Financial collateral is a concept that starts from the idea of traditional security interests and is then developed considerably further. Security interests are restricted in their scope of application and typically impose a number of requirements and limitations on the creditor (security taker)...

Legislators and regulators use a number of concepts to cast regulatory goals into regulatory rules. This range of concepts ranges from highly intrusive, such as prohibition of a certain activity, to little intrusive, such as disclosure of certain facts. This paper systematizes the various...