This article investigates the laws used in the United Kingdom (UK) to enforce the financial crime of benchmark interest rate manipulation, the most well-known example of which took place in the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and the Foreign Exchange (FX) benchmark manipulation scandal in...

A survey of past financial crises, starting with the great banking collapses of the interwar period. The current turmoil has prompted a number of questions regarding both its origins and ways to avoid its repetition. The historical background and the evolving institutional framework of banking...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Insets -- List of Abbreviations, Acronyms and Organisational Names -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Labour Unionism in the Financial Services Sector: Struggling for Rights and Representation -- 2 Historical Genesis and Development of Labour...

This paper analyzes revenue and welfare effects of implementing a FAT both from a theoretical and a quantitative perspective. The theoretical analysis allows us to derive expressions for the revenue effects and the deadweight loss in a general equilibrium setting, which can be quantified with a...