Everett Mccrackens Banking And Financial Institutions Law

Everett & McCracken's Banking and Financial Institutions Law 9th Edition follows the earlier editions in providing a comprehensive legal analysis of the Australian financial sector. Over the past 30 years this work has chronicled the legal development of the sector, offering broad coverage of the legal concepts and principles which typically arise in banking and financing transactions. The text opens with a detailed examination of the regulatory framework, which is marked by a diversity of regulators and a multiplicity of regulatory regimes. It then advances a general framework for analysing financing transactions, building on contractual and property law concepts and focusing on complexities arising from the role of financial institutions and the intricate and specialised nature of their business and the financial assets with which they deal. This discussion is followed by a close analysis of the operation of payment instruments as well as modes of taking security. It concludes by considering common financing structures such as syndication, securitisation and subordination.

Provides a comprehensive yet concise description of the law relating to banking and financial institutions. The legal framework in which economic and political decisions relating to the financial sector is made is explained. Sample documents are included to illustrate important points and cheque law is also covered.

Provides a comprehensive legal analysis of the Australian finance sector, covering not only the business of banking, payment instruments and the taking of security, but also the operation of the financial markets themselves, the instruments traded on them and the regulatory and fiscal framework which governs them.

Everett & McCracken's Banking and Financial Institutions Law 8th Edition follows the earlier editions in providing a comprehensive legal analysis of the Australian financial sector. Over the past twenty-five years this work has chronicled the legal development of the sector, offering broad coverage of the legal concepts and principles which typically arise in banking and financing transactions.

The Law of Financial Institutions provides the foundation for a successful course on the law of traditional commercial banks. The book’s clear writing, careful editing, timely content, and concise explanations to provocative questions make a difficult field of law lively and interesting. New to the Seventh Edition: Unified analysis of different types of financial institution under a common framework, using simple mock balance sheets as a way of vividly illustrating the similarities and differences and bringing out the features that lend stability or instability to the financial system. A new chapter dealing with the important topic of financial technology. Extensive treatment of liquidity regulation, one of the most fundamental strategies for ensuring bank safety and soundness. A clear and coherent discussion of capital regulation and provides up-to-date explanations and simple examples of the complex issues surrounding capital adequacy applicable to banks today. A clear, coherent, and interesting account of the essential nature of the banking firm as a financial intermediary that acts as a payment service provider. Text that addresses issues of compliance and risk management that have become central to the management of banking institutions in the years since the financial crisis. Professors and student will benefit from: Important new contributions from Professor Peter Conti-Brown, a nationally renowned expert in banking policy and history Completely revised and updated to reflect important regulatory initiatives and trends Answers to all problem sets available to adopting professors Focuses on topics from economic, political, and doctrinal point of view Interesting and provocative questions with explanations Extensive use of nontraditional materials and professor-written discussions and explanations Excellent organization and careful editing

Provides a comprehensive analysis of the law relating to banks and other financial institutions. It introduces the statutory framework governing the various financial market players - in particular, the regulators, the financial institutions and the corporates.