According to Israeli law, the bank owes a fiduciary duty to its customers. However, recently, the Israeli courts have expanded the doctrine of the ban's fiduciary duty in various ways: In terms of the content o the duty; in terms of the scope of the beneficiaries – other than customers –...

Contemporary bank governance is criticized for manager-dominated (insider) boards of directors, but from the beginning of the nineteenth century, bank presidents appear also to have operated as chairmen of the boards of directors. However, the managers were constrained by a variety of rules that...

Following the adoption by the Basel Committee of new capital rules for banks, a process is now taking place in the EU to transpose the rules into Community law and, ultimately, into national legislation. This paper gives an overview of the main issues that relate to the EU implementation, mainly...