Banking Secrecy and Global Finance: Economic and Political Issues

by Olga Balakina and Donato Masciandaro

A 2009 G20 official document stated that the era of banking secrecy is over but is it? If banking secrecy is the result of market mechanisms, it suggests that worldwide demand and supply are likely to remain for a long time to come. Since the Global Financial Crisis, many countries have fought to combat banking secrecy, yet it permeates both national and international industries, and global efforts to prevent banking secrecy have been ineffective...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137400099
• ISBN13: 9781137400093
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"