Joseph Cannataci studied law at the University of Oslo and received his Doctor of Laws degree (LLD) from the University of Malta. In addition to serving on research projects and committees in the Council of Europe, he has written books and legal articles on data protection law, liability for...

Banking is an international business; both information and capital flow relatively unimpeded across international borders. Banking institutions' information stores have increased dramatically with the spread of computers, and these institutions protect data inside their firewalls from outside...

This essay aims at highlighting the linkage between current international banking regulation (namely, that produced by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision) and economic activity, which is proxied by the S&P500 stock market index. It is revealed that the amount of regulatory documents...

Over the four decades since the Four Modernizations program began in 1978, China has matured from a capital-starved, mono-bank-centric financial system to a capital-rich system with great variety of financial intermediation. This chapter plays off the double meaning of its title: first, it...

Purpose: Much of the criticism directed toward banking in China revolves around self-dealing in relationships between bankers and their clients. Corruption, nepotism, high levels of non-performing loans and the inefficiency of government-directed lending have all been laid at the door of...

Purpose: This chapter discusses the influence of the United Nations Ten Principles [UNGC] on multinational mining companies' (mining MNE) corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities and strategies.Design/methodology/approach: Business ethics, mining management, CSR, stakeholder and social...

While the effects of cultural disparity and common institutional foundations on international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) have been much analyzed, little analysis of languages' transaction costs has been done in either the international relations or international business...