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This book takes a fresh look at the legal definition of money. Setting out the current legal framework by reference to certain types of transaction and problem areas like claims for non-payment and payment obligations, the definition of money is also considered in the context of e-currency, e-payment systems and FinTech.

This book, the leading guide to the structure of bank financial regulation, is invaluable for lawyers and others interested in the regulatory drivers shaping financial transactions and techniques. This edition has been updated to reflect recent developments, most notably Basel III, bank resolution and recovery regime and bank structural reform.

The 2008 global financial crisis ushered in the biggest explosion in new bank regulation around the world since the Great Depression. Even more so than then, this new regulation has been coordinated on a global basis and reflects global standards as well as local idiosyncracies. Although governments and regulators have sought to put measures in place to prevent the failure of banks, they have acknowledged the need for measures to address what happens when banks fail or are threatened with failure and how to resolve such failure.

Bank Resolution and Crisis Management: Law and...

"Saints and Their Cults in the Atlantic World" traces the changing significance of a dozen saints and holy sites from the fourth century to the twentieth and from Africa, Sicily, Wales, and Iceland to Canada, Boston, Mexico, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Scholars representing the fields of history, art history, religious studies, and communications contribute their perspectives in this interdisciplinary collection, also notable as the first English language study of many of the saints treated in the volume. Several chapters chart the changing images and meanings of holy people as their...