This book covers the legal aspects of the interaction between banking regulation and international trade in financial services. The author studies the internal banking market of the European Union, the liberalization of financial services trade in the World Trade Organization (WTO), the accords of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, and the European Central Bank (ECB). The book focuses on the balancing between banking regulation and international trade law. It discusses discrimination and proportionality in national banking regulation, the allocation of prudential regulation and...