Internet Banking and the Law in Europe: Regulation, Financial Integration and Electronic Commerce

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Cambridge University Press, 2006 M11 2 - 404 pages
The European Union has long sought to create a single financial area across Europe where consumers in one country benefit from financial markets and activities in other countries. With the emergence of the Internet as a platform for the provision of online banking services, the creation of a pan-European market for banking services appeared a realistic proposition. In practice, however, this has not happened. This book asks why and argues that the creation of banking markets via the Internet relies on both available technologies and appropriate laws and regulations. The institutional and legal framework for online banking services in the single European market are examined, as is the level of legal harmonization achieved in the UK, France and Germany under the influence of the EU Directives pertaining to online banking activities.

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Apostolos Gkoutzinis is a partner in the capital markets group of the London office of Shearman and Sterling, with a focus on US federal securities laws, high yield debt offerings and international capital markets transactions in general. He is recognized as one of the leading lawyers in the European debt capital markets in general and high yield market in particular, and has represented issuers, sponsors and underwriters in a wide variety of corporate and leveraged buy-out high yield bond offerings, investment grade debt offerings, equity offerings and other transactions. He has also played a central role in several liability management transactions involving investment grade and high yield debt securities.

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