Dalhuisen on Transnational and Comparative Commercial, Financial and Trade Law Volume 6

Jan H Dalhuisen is Professor of Law at King's College London, UK and Chair in Transnational Financial Law at the Catholic University in Lisbon, Portugal. He is Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and former Visiting Professor at the Tsinghua University in Beijing, the University of Hong Kong, the University of Singapore (NUS), Tel Aviv University, the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands.

[A] monument of tremendous scholarship. It is likely to be an irreplaceable source for both academic and practicing lawyers dealing with international trade, finance, and economic law.

• 1. Financial Services, Financial Service Providers, Financial Risk and Financial Regulation1.1 Financial Services and Their Regulation 1.2 International Aspects of Financial Regulation 1.3 The 2008 Financial Crisis and its Effect on Financial Regulation 1.4 The Essentials of Commercial Banking 1.5 Capital Markets. The Essentials of the Investment Securities Business and its Regulation 2. International Aspects of Financial Services Regulation: The Effects of Globalisation and the Autonomy of the International Capital Markets. The Developments in GATT/WTO, the EU and BIS/IOSCO/IAIS2.1 The Globalisation of the Financial Markets and the Informal Liberalisation of Finance 2.2 The Formal Regime for the Freeing of the Movement of Goods, Services, Current Payments and Capital After World War II 2.3 The Creation of the EEC in Europe and its Evolution into the EU 2.4 The Effects of Autonomous Globalisation Forces on Financial Activity and its Regulation in the EU 2.5 Developments in the BIS, IOSCO and IAIS. The International Harmonisation of the Capital Adequacy Regime (Basel I, II and III) 3. The EU Regulations and Directives Concerning the Internal Market in Financial Services: Early Action, the European Passport, the 1998 EU Action Plan for a Single Market in Financial Services, and Further Action Following the 2008 Financial Crisis3.1 Early EU Concerns and Action in the Regulated Financial Service Industries 3.2 The Early EU Achievements in the Regulation of Financial Services 3.3 The European Passport for the Financial Services Industry 3.4 The 1998 EU Action Plan for Financial Services 3.5 The Details of the Third Generation Directives and Their Revamping Under the 1998 Action Plan. The Period up to the 2008 Financial Crisis and the Continuation of the Basic Framework 3.6 Other EU Regulatory Initiatives in the Financial Area 3.7 The EU During and After the 2008 Financial Storm 4. The European Banking Union 5. Summary, Evaluation and Conclusion