"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...

The financial crisis has shone a light on many hitherto disregarded market practices and has put pressure on regulators to show that they are policing the markets in order to contain unacceptable practices. In 2010 a prominent example arose in the area of financial market regulation, as the...