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The Law of Financial Crime

About the Book Series

While a growing number of high profile financial crime cases have hit the headlines recently the topic of financial crime is also generating much attention amongst academics and practitioners. This series will be the first to be dedicated to the law of financial, or economic, crime and offers a platform for important and original research in this area.  

Books in the series will cover traditional subjects of financial crime including money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, market abuse, insider dealing, market manipulation, tax evasion, bribery and corruption. But broader legal and regulatory issues will also be covered as well as emerging areas of concern such as the risks to stability of the financial system posed by financial crime. Emphasis will be placed on comparative approaches to the subject considering legislation across a number of jurisdictions as well as international regulations where appropriate, giving the series a truly global outlook. 

The titles in the series are primarily aimed at an audience of researchers, scholars and practitioners in the area but should also be of interest to policy makers, law enforcement agencies, financial regulatory agencies, as well as people employed within the financial services sector.

Nicholas Ryder is Professor in Financial Crime, Bristol Law School, Faculty of Business and Law, the University of the West of England, UK.

Dr. Lachmi Singh is Associate Lecturer, Bristol Law School, University of the West of England, UK.

39 Series Titles


Fraud Markers, De-banking, and Financial Crime A Legal Analysis of Counter-fraud Practices in the UK and Beyond

Fraud Markers, De-banking, and Financial Crime: A Legal Analysis of Counter-fraud Practices in the UK and Beyond

1st Edition

By Jeremy Asher
February 03, 2025

This book enlightens the reader as to how the financial sector in the UK operates fraud databases to help combat fraud and explains the phenomenon of ‘debanking’. It considers the unique confluence of necessity, a flexible regulatory framework, and recent history of collaboration that now places ...

Counter-Terrorism Financing and Iran

Counter-Terrorism Financing and Iran

1st Edition

By Zeynab Malakouti Khah
January 30, 2025

This book blends doctrinal and empirical research to examine the phenomenon of counter-terrorism financing at the level of both international and Iranian national law. The work discusses the legitimacy, fairness and effectiveness of the international counter-terrorism financing framework, and then ...

Financial Investigation and Financial Intelligence A Critical Analysis

Financial Investigation and Financial Intelligence: A Critical Analysis

1st Edition

By Craig Hughes, David Hicks
December 31, 2024

This book critically analyses the conceptual understanding of financial investigation and financial intelligence among UK law enforcement authorities and their commentators. The work provides a critical review of financial investigation, including international standards, and how it is perceived ...

Stemming Terrorist Finance The Regulation of Hawala and Alternative Remittance Systems

Stemming Terrorist Finance: The Regulation of Hawala and Alternative Remittance Systems

1st Edition

By Karen Clubb
December 31, 2024

Following the events of 9\11 individual countries and the international community became increasingly concerned about how best to prevent the funding of terrorist groups. Alternative remittance systems such as Hawala, where money is moved informally between a network of brokers in the Middle East, ...

Organised Crime, Financial Crime, and Criminal Justice Theoretical Concepts and Challenges

Organised Crime, Financial Crime, and Criminal Justice: Theoretical Concepts and Challenges

1st Edition

Edited By Dan Jasinski, Amber Phillips, Ed Johnston
December 18, 2024

Organised crime and financial crime are pressing global problems, increasingly recognised as policy priorities both by national governments and international bodies and corporations. This proudly interdisciplinary collection is built on the premise that these topics are too often artificially ...

Global Anti-Money Laundering Regulation Developing Countries Compliance Challenges

Global Anti-Money Laundering Regulation: Developing Countries Compliance Challenges

1st Edition

Edited By Nkechikwu Azinge-Egbiri, Nicholas Ryder, Ehi Eric Esoimeme
November 25, 2024

This book explores the politics of money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF) regulation in several countries across Africa and the Small Island States. Developed countries created the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to combat ML/TF globally. Expectedly, the FATF’s standards mirror ...

International Anti-Money Laundering and Soft Law Approaches to Regulation

International Anti-Money Laundering and Soft Law: Approaches to Regulation

1st Edition

By Emmanuel Ebikake
November 01, 2024

Adopting a mixed-methods approach, this book assesses the role of soft law as a technique to repress and prevent money laundering. The consequence of the combination of a non-traditional subject matter with the limitations of traditional international law instruments has meant that lawmakers ...

Illicit Finance and the Law in the Commonwealth Caribbean The Myth of Paradise

Illicit Finance and the Law in the Commonwealth Caribbean: The Myth of Paradise

1st Edition

By Rohan D. Clarke
May 27, 2024

This book provokes fresh ways of thinking about small developing States within the transnational legal order for combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism and proliferation (TAMLO). From the global wars on drugs and terror to journalistic exposés such as the ‘Paradise’, ‘Panama’ and...

FinTech, Artificial Intelligence and the Law Regulation and Crime Prevention

FinTech, Artificial Intelligence and the Law: Regulation and Crime Prevention

1st Edition

Edited By Alison Lui, Nicholas Ryder
January 09, 2023

This collection critically explores the use of financial technology (FinTech) and artificial intelligence (AI) in the financial sector and discusses effective regulation and the prevention of crime. Focusing on crypto-assets, InsureTech and the digitisation of financial dispute resolution, the book...

Offshore Financial Centres and the Law Suspect Wealth in British Overseas Territories

Offshore Financial Centres and the Law: Suspect Wealth in British Overseas Territories

1st Edition

By Dominic Thomas-James
January 09, 2023

This book considers the ability of island jurisdictions with financial centres to meet the expectations of the international community in addressing the threats posed to themselves and others by their innocent (or otherwise) facilitation of the receipt of suspect wealth. In the global financial ...

Combating Corruption in the Middle East A Socio-Legal Study of Kuwait

Combating Corruption in the Middle East: A Socio-Legal Study of Kuwait

1st Edition

By Khaled S. Al-Rashidi
September 26, 2022

This book examines the phenomenon of ‘grand corruption’ in Kuwait and the pattern in the wider region. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the work places corruption in its sociological, political and economic context to explore the relationship between the characteristics of Kuwait as a state ...

Regulating and Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing The Law in Emerging Economies

Regulating and Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing: The Law in Emerging Economies

1st Edition

By Nkechikwu Azinge-Egbiri
September 26, 2022

This book analytically reviews the impact of the global anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) framework on the compliance trajectory of a number of jurisdictions to this framework. The work begins by examining the international financial sector reform and its evolution to...

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