Pierre-Hugues Verdier

Global Banks on Trial (eBook, PDF)

U.S. Prosecutions and the Remaking of International Finance

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Produktbeschreibung

In the years since the 2008 financial crisis, U.S. federal prosecutors have brought dozens of criminal cases against the world's most powerful banks, charging them with manipulating financial indices, helping their customers evade taxes, evading sanctions, and laundering money. To settle these cases, global banks like UBS, Barclays, HSBC and BNP Paribas paid tens of billions of dollars in fines. They also agreed to extensive reforms, hiring hundreds of compliance officers, spending billions on new systems, and installing independent monitors. In effect, they agreed to become worldwide enforcers of U.S. law, including financial sanctions-sometimes despite their own governments' protests. This book examines the U.S. enforcement campaign against global banks across four areas: benchmark manipulation, tax evasion, sanctions violations, and sovereign debt. It shows that U.S. prosecutors have unilaterally carved out a new role as global bank regulators, heralding a fundamental shift in how international finance is overseen. Their ability to do so stems from U.S. control over access to vital hubs of the international financial system. In some areas, unilateral U.S. actions have ushered in important multilateral reforms, such as the rise of automatic tax information exchange and better-regulated financial indices. In other areas, such as financial sanctions, unilateralism has attracted protests from other states and spurred attempts to challenge U.S. dominance of international finance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190675783
• Artikelnr.: 58658219

Autorenporträt

Pierre-Hugues Verdier is John A. Ewald Jr. Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgments
* Table of Abbreviations
* Chapter 1. Introduction: Global Banks, Regulators, and Prosecutors
* Chapter 2. "I Think We Got Away with It": Benchmark Manipulation
* Chapter 3. "Geneva Is Beautiful This Time of Year": Offshore Tax
Evasion
* Chapter 4. "A Hidden War": Sanctions Evasion
* Chapter 5. "An Extortion and an Act of Piracy": Enforcing Sovereign
Debt
* Chapter 6. Conclusion: The Future of Global Bank Prosecutions
* Notes
* Index