Series:

Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions

3 total works

Cover of Anti-Money Laundering, Counter Financing Terrorism and Cybersecurity in the Banking Industry

Despite massive investments in mitigation capabilities, financial crime remains a trillion-dollar global issue with impacts that extend well beyond the financial services industry. Worldwide, there are between $800 billion and $2 trillion laundered annually with the United States making up at least $300 billion of that figure. Although it is not possible to measure money laundering in the same way as legitimate economic activity, the scale of the problem is considered enormous. The cybersecurity landscape is always shifting, with threats becoming more sophisticated all the time. Managing risks in the banking and financial sectors requires a thorough understanding of the evolving risks as well as the tools and practical techniques available to address them. Cybercrime is a global problem, which requires a coordinated international response. This book outlines the regulatory requirements that come out of cyber laws and showcases the comparison in dealing with AML/CFT and cybersecurity among the G-20, which will be of interest to scholars, students and policymakers within these fields.

Cover of Fintech Regulation and Supervision Challenges within the Banking Industry
Strengthening financial sector regulatory arrangements has been a major focus of the G-20 since the crisis in 2008, and progress in strengthening financial regulations is often cited as its success. Nonetheless, the overall contribution of the G20 as a political forum for the oversight of international financial regulation is diming as FinTech is blurring the boundaries between intermediaries and markets, as well as between digital service providers moving into the financial space, nonbank financial companies, and banks. Along the same line, financial technology is causing paradigm changes to the traditional financial system, presenting both challenges and opportunities. As FinTech grows rapidly, the importance of regulation and supervision becomes more prominent.

The three cornerstones of banking: taking deposits, making loans, and facilitating payments are being reassembled functionally and digitally outside of the bank regulatory perimeter by certain firms. Without comprehensive consolidated supervision, no single regulator can see the whole picture and understand how a firm as a whole operates and takes risk. No crypto firm to date is subject to comprehensive consolidated supervision, creating gaps in supervision alongside risks. Countries around the world are taking divergent views on cryptocurrency and other so-called “Web3” technologies based on blockchain. This book aims to provide a comparison between the various available approaches, models, or legislations by identifying certain key legislative policies within the G-20 as they cope with innovative financial technologies, and will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners of banking, financial regulation, risk management, and financial technology.

Cover of Bank Deposit Guarantee Systems

More than 107 countries have some form of explicit deposit insurance according to the Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey conducted by the World Bank. This book explores the diverse deposit insurance regulations across countries, ranging from full to partial coverage, from explicit to implicit appliance, from compulsory to non-compulsory, among the G-20 countries. It also explores the differences of premium implementation. The book focuses on the need for deposit insurance systems given their ability to prevent bank runs, which usually lead to asset liquidation and potentially to bank failure. The book looks closely at how to properly design a safety net and balance two competing goals: ensuring stability in the financial system when liquidity and solvency problems arise while minimizing moral hazard. The book examines these various deposit insurance schemes and their ability to maintain the stability of the financial system by protecting the critical financial intermediation function of banks and their role in the national payments system, and will be of interest to researchers, students, and policymakers of banking, banking regulation, and international finance.