To help you decipher the complexities of banking law, this user-friendly guide provides a basic understanding to this specialty area. From outlining what is a bank to identifying your clients, this primer helps you understand "just the basics." Included is a comprehensive appendix of acronyms, lingo, and jargon that is easily accessible and includes banking terms, legal references, definitions, and more.

This easy-to-read guidebook is designed for lawyers who are new to banking law or are very seasoned practitioners who on occasion need to research banking law issues. The focus of the guidebook is to show how major bank regulations are structured and how they apply to different types of institutions and holding companies.

Banking Law is subject to a fast pace of change and development. In the past twenty five years alone, for example, one hundred forty regulatory circulars were issued by the Lebanese Central Bank to create a legal framework for the banking activity. This intense regulatory activity and the increasingly frequent intervention of the supervisory authorities have repeatedly rearranged this framework: these circulars were amended no less than four hundred and fifty times during the same period. In addition, the influence of international laws and regulations on the Lebanese banking system has further complicated the shaping of a regulatory policy. As a result, we all remain apprentices of the subject, no matter how long and profound our experience. These characteristics make this section of the Law so fascinating but, sometimes, frustrating. This book is intended to help law professionals resolve this frustration and become more fascinated with the Lebanese banking laws and regulations. Banking Law is a multifaceted area of practice that can be intimidating even to experienced lawyers. The practice of banking law has considerably evolved over the last several years due to intensive legislative and regulatory initiatives undertaken under the auspices of, or in corroboration with, the Lebanese Central Bank. Since 1993, the passing of several laws and regulations created many watchdogs for the banking sector as well as a complex but comprehensive framework to regulate the banking activity. This book provides a general overview of today's system of banking and financial regulations that is unique to the Lebanese market. Banks are particular entities exercising specific types of operations. Students, researchers as well as lawyers representing banks need to understand their client's specific legal and regulatory contexts to serve better their needs. This practical resource gives the reader the essential keys to understand what we refer to in this book as "Banking Law" by extensively answering, among others, the following questions: - How the role of a banking institution has evolved? - What are the characteristics of the existing types of banks? - What are the local regulatory requirements to establish a bank in Lebanon and branches abroad? - How to issue, trade and deal with banks' securities? - What rules apply to online banking activities? - Who are the supervisory authorities of the banking and financial sectors; how are they managed and what are their respective roles? - How do the current laws and regulations protect the interests of the bank's depositors, shareholders and stakeholders? More than 25 years of accumulated legal learning is comprised in this book that will benefit banking law practitioners, researchers and students. In order to comprehensively answer the above mentioned questions, the content of this book is organised into to the following chapters: I. Introduction II. The role of banking institutions III. Types of banks IV. Establishment of a bank in Lebanon V. Banks' securities VI. Branches, representative offices and affiliates VII. E-banking VIII. Banking supervision IX. Main legal and regulatory framework

This two-volume resource is a thorough guide to legislative regulatory & court actions covering every major area of banking including international banking, securities, activities by banks, bank holding companies, & successful banking transactions with the most comprehensive review & analysis available on the laws & regulations governing banking practices in the United States.Banking law is more complex now than at any time in history. Federal enactments such as the Financial Institutions Reform Recovery & Enforcement Act of 1989 & the 1991 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act have moved the regulation of banking to its most intrusive level ever.

This third edition of the Principles of Banking Law provides an authoritative treatment of both domestic and international banking law. This edition contains expanded coverage of developments in other comparable jurisdictions, internet banking services and money laundering.

With its refined, updated Third Edition, Banking Law and Regulation again takes its place as the most effective foundation text available on the law surrounding traditional commercial banks and other depository institutions. the new edition builds on the comprehensive yet concise approach on which instructors have come to depend. As before, The Third Edition: explains the nature, content, and scope of the rules that regulate banking in ways that make the material meaningful and relevant to students encompasses the history, regulation, regulatory powers, and globalization of financial institutions examines the role of the bank in modern society including explorations of policy implications makes enlightening connections between traditional commercial banks and other depository institutions employs an effective cases-and-notes pedagogy that blends clear introductions to legal concepts with a mixture of rhetorical and problem-like questions begins with a strong introductory history and overview of banking, nontraditional depository institutions, and banking regulation, giving students a solid foundation on which to build their understanding provides regular updates through an annual Statutory Supplement addressing recent developments and new cases In the New Edition - a wide variety of changes, improvements, and updates, including: a new co-author, Richard Scott Carnell, who draws on his expertise in both legal practice and teaching revised chapters on Securities Powers of Banking Institutions and International Banking, that cover these crucial topics more accessibly an expanded index for quicker access to specific coverage the latest cases and changes in the law, especially the Gramm-Leach-Biley Act of 1999 updated coverage of antitrust and other important legislative developments