Macroprudential policy focuses on the financial system as a whole, as distinct from individual institutions, and its objective is to limit the costs to the real economy from system-wide distress of the financial sector. This book helps readers discover and decipher the multi-faceted and fascinating area of macroprudential policy through taking a theoretical, interdisciplinary and legal-focused approach.

Bank- en Financiewezen is een publicatie van het Belgisch Financieel Forum. Het behandelt de financieel-economische aspecten van het bank- en financiewezen. Hiermee is het volledig complementair aan Bank- en Financieel Recht, eveneens een uitgave van het Belgisch Financieel Forum, dat zich oriënteert op de juridische aspecten.

Het boek biedt een actuele dwarsdoorsnede van de belangrijke financieelrechtelijke ontwikkelingen in België. Binnen de verschillende deelgebieden van het financieel recht (i.c. het kredietrecht, de beleggersbescherming en het kapitaalmarktrecht) wordt aandacht besteed aan specifieke thema’s die het voorwerp zijn van belangrijke evoluties in de Europese en Belgische regelgeving (MiFIR, MiFID II, PSD II, Prospectusverordening, …) of om...

Islamic Finance is a truly international collaboration of outstanding scholars and practitioners in their field that reveals the complexities involved in applying religious principles and legal theory to the daily practice of business and finance.

The book contributes to the continuing debate on the optimal legal strategy regarding creditor protection. Furthermore, it provides valuable insights on the background and foundations of the remarkable approach towards creditor protection in closed companies in the new 2019 Belgian Companies Act. Contributions by Diederik Bruloot and Evariest Callens, Isabelle Corbisier, Hans De Wulf, Miguel Gimeno Ribes, Frederic Helsen, Simon Landuyt, Chr...

This book brings together foreign investment and investment arbitration in Asia. It provides a critical analysis of foreign investment, its benefits and the legal regimes of the jurisdictions studied at a time when investor-state disputes are on the rise and investment arbitration is under growing scrutiny. Governments are under greater pressure to balance the promotion of investment with public policy development and interests and calls for a...

Since the beginning of 2018, MiFID II and MiFIR, the new European rules on Markets in Financial Instruments have become a reality. The contributions in this book cover a broad range of interesting themes from investor protection to market regulation and enforcement. Each of these analyses offers welcome guidance to anyone who is in one way or another affected by these rules. MiFID II en MiFIR, de hernieuwde Europese regels inzake markten in...

Dit boek neemt u op gedetailleerde en gestructureerde wijze mee in de gegevensbeschermingsregulering en haar grondrechtelijke fundamenten. Het besteedt in het bijzonder aandacht aan een spanningsveld dat bijzonder actueel is, zeker in het licht van de Algemene Verordening Gegevensbescherming.

This book focuses on the legal aspects of virtual currencies from the perspective of financial and economic law. It establishes a typology of virtual currencies and assesses whether they can be considered as money. The author analyzes whether the EU legal frameworks on electronic money, payment services, anti-money laundering, and markets in financial instruments can be applied to virtual currencies.