"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...

This response to a Communication of the European Commission on ‘reinforcing sanctioning regimes in financial services' supports the emphasis placed on more intensive investigation and detection. Sanctions remain hypothetical in the absence of detection, which is unlikely without serious...