Global Banks on Trial

U.S. Prosecutions and the Remaking of International Finance

AvPierre-Hugues Verdier

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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In the years since the 2008 financial crisis, U.S. federal prosecutors have brought dozens of criminal cases against the world's most powerful banks, charging them with manipulating financial indices, helping their customers evade taxes, evading sanctions, and laundering money. To settle these cases, global banks like UBS, Barclays, HSBC and BNP Paribas paid tens of billions of dollars in fines. They also agreed to extensive reforms, hiring hundreds of compliance officers, spending billions on new systems, and installing independent monitors. In effect, they agreed to become worldwide enforcers of U.S. law, including financial sanctions-sometimes despite their own governments' protests. This book examines the U.S. enforcement campaign against global banks across four areas: benchmark manipulation, tax evasion, sanctions violations, and sovereign debt. It shows that U.S. prosecutors have unilaterally carved out a new role as global bank regulators, heralding a fundamental shift in how international finance is overseen. Their ability to do so stems from U.S. control over access to vital hubs of the international financial system. In some areas, unilateral U.S. actions have ushered in important multilateral reforms, such as the rise of automatic tax information exchange and better-regulated financial indices. In other areas, such as financial sanctions, unilateralism has attracted protests from other states and spurred attempts to challenge U.S. dominance of international finance.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-06-05
Mått:236 x 163 x 33 mm
Vikt:510 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780190675776

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Pierre-Hugues Verdier is John A. Ewald Jr. Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia.

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In his book, Verdier clearly demonstrates the shift in perspective regarding the impact of US prosecutions abroad and the efficiency of their resolution ... Verdier's book contributes to the wider discussion in international law of whether the efficiency of unilateral measures can be adequately balanced against the interests of sovereignty and establishment of international cooperation.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface Acknowledgments Table of Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction: Global Banks, Regulators, and Prosecutors Chapter 2. "I Think We Got Away with It": Benchmark Manipulation Chapter 3. "Geneva Is Beautiful This Time of Year": Offshore Tax Evasion Chapter 4. "A Hidden War": Sanctions Evasion Chapter 5. "An Extortion and an Act of Piracy": Enforcing Sovereign Debt Chapter 6. Conclusion: The Future of Global Bank Prosecutions Notes Index

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