Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance: Volume 9 Issue 1

‘An academic ombudsman’

Julian Farrand

The paper focuses on the tensions between the subjective discretionary decision making of an ombudsman and the objective non‐discretionary decision making favoured by judges…

Pension reform, capital markets and corporate governance in Malaysia

Mukul G. Asher

The main retirement benefit scheme for private sector employees in Malaysia is a 50‐year‐old mandatory savings scheme administered by the Employees Provident Fund (EPF). It had…

Levelling the playing field in international financial markets: The Basel Accord revisited

Rahul Dhumale

The framework for financial services provision in a global context cannot ignore the issue of competition nor even consider it in isolation. Moreover, in the financial sector the…

Financial regulation in Ireland: Should the regulator be the Central Bank?

Jim Stewart

A new financial regulator has been proposed for Ireland. There is little debate about the principle of a single financial regulator but considerable debate as to whether the…

Proposed EC Directive on the distance selling of financial services

Alan Davis

The European Commission has published a revised proposal for a European Parliament and Council directive to harmonise member states' rules on consumer protection in relation to…

The theory of regulation: A review article

Chibuike Ugochukwu Uche

This paper examines the various theoretical issues in regulation with a view to enhancing understanding of the regulation arena. Special emphasis has been placed on the banking…

Electronic commerce and wholesale financial services

Timothy Baker

International wholesale financial markets have long been used to exploiting the cutting edge of technology to find more efficient ways of doing business. But now new electronic…

Defamation appeal: Court of Appeal rules that qualified privilege applies in respect of letter to regulator Mahon and Another v Rahn and Others

Brooke LJ, Mantell LJ, Laws LJ

The factual background to this appeal was given in Vol.8, No.1 Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance when the judgment at first instance, from which this appeal by the…