The course considers the main techniques of financial regulation: disclosure, licensing, prohibitions of market misconduct, self regulation and powers of investigation and enforcement. It considers the rules and practices constituting financial regulation, the market institutions and regulatory context in which it operates and the additional insights we gain from contemporary regulatory studies. The course tackles current issues in financial regulation such as the impact on law of product and market convergence, intermediary conglomeration, globalization, use of computer and telecommunications and responses to recent ethical failures in financial services.

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