Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance: Volume 19 Issue 1

The reforms: a political safe haven or political suicide – is the Labour bubble bursting?

Clare Chambers

The purpose of this paper is to examine the political influence on the reforms proffered for the banking sector.

Global financial architecture, global imbalances and the future of the dollar in a post‐crisis world

Karim Pakravan

Financial globalization and global imbalances are two facets of the same phenomenon, which has resulted in the worst global economic and financial crisis since the Great…

Banking consolidation, credit crisis and asset quality in a fragile banking system: Some evidence from Nigerian data

Abel E. Ezeoha

The aim of this paper is to identify the major determinants of bank asset quality in an era of regulation‐induced industry consolidation, using the Nigerian case to demonstrate…

The impact of M&A transactions from private equity and hedge funds: Empirical evidence from Austria and Switzerland

Gerhard Wörtche, Tristan Nguyen

The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions from private equity and hedge funds. Owing to the recent financial and economic…

Firm size and compliance costs asymmetries in the investment services

Giampaolo Gabbi, Paola Musile Tanzi, Loris Nadotti

The purpose of this paper is to find out how effectively implemented are measuring approaches to compliance and whether there is a correlation between the measures implementation…

The metamorphosis of insider trading in the face of regulatory enforcement

Nicholas Dorn

The purpose of this paper is to explore the prospects for and some foreseeable consequences of more intensive enforcement action against insider trading in the context of the UK…

Court of Appeal rules on trust status and client money protection in relation to Lehman Bros funds

Joanna Gray

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the Court of Appeal's consideration regarding Lehman Bros International (Europe) (in Administration) (Court of Appeal: Civil Division: Lord…

A new company descriptor takes us into a new era

Rebecca Marsh