Litigation financing is also known as legal financing and third-party funding is relatively recent development beginning on or around 1997. The demand for both commercial and consumer litigation funding is picking up the pace. Nevertheless, the landscape for commercial litigation is rapidly...

Prevailing views suggest that short-term, unhedged foreign borrowing and crony capitalism, in combination with a weak financial system and lack of transparency may lie at the heart of the Asian financial crisis of 1997. Although the crisis first began in Thailand, it quickly spread to the rest...

The last two decades of the twentieth century witnessed a series of financial reforms in emerging economics of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The seminal works of R.I. McKinnon and E.S. Shaw, which attribute the slow growth of these economies to financial repression, inspired many of these...

Conflict of interest can occur in the organization of any size, extent and magnitude. Both financial and non-financial conflicts of interests are widespread and the most common prescribed remedy is disclosure. The purpose of the conflict of interest legislation is to ensure that government...