The Financial Crisis and White Collar Crime - Legislative and Policy Responses A Critical Assessment

This book offers a commentary on the responses to white collar crime since the financial crisis. The book brings together experts from academia and practice to analyse the legal and policy responses that have been put in place following the 2008 financial crisis. The book looks at a range of topics including: the low priority and resources allocated to fraud; EU regulatory efforts to fight financial crime; protecting whistleblowers in the financial industry; the criminality of the rogue trader; the evolution of financial crime in cryptocurrencies; and the levying of financial penalties against banks and corporations by the US Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission.

1. Introduction, Nicholas Ryder, Umut Turksen and Jon Tucker 2. The 2008 Financial Crisis and Fraud: Examining the Causes and the Response through the Concepts of Deviancy Attenuation, Delabelling and Immoral Phlegmatism Mark Button and Martin Tunley 3. The importance of whistleblowers in uncovering financial misconduct in Potemkin villages Alison Lui 4. Rogues in the City Paul Keenan 5. The Systemic Role of Technology in financial instabilityDionysios Demetis 6. The finance industry perspective Jon Tucker 7. Market Abuse Regime as a Mechanism of Regulatory Reform Andrew H Baker 8. A new challenge for the FCA: Establishing ‘appropriate’ consumer protection in the consumer credit market in light of the 2008 financial crisis Daniel Jasinski 9. Legislation and regulation in response to financial crime - Pursuing ghosts? Andrew Haynes 10. Independence and protection of accountants and auditors in the EU AML Framework Rhian Dow and Umut Turksen 11. Post-crisis regulation and prosecutions in financial crime: progress or paradox? Gauri Sinha 12. The financial crisis and its relationship with white collar crime in the United States of America: time for the Feds to fight back? Axel Palmer 13. The National Crime Agency: A Critical Analysis of its Potential Impact on the UK’s Financial Crime Policy Christopher Recker 14. Financial Crises and Financial Crime: ‘Conscious coupling’ and "transformative understandings" of crime past, present and futureSarah Wilson

Nicholas Ryder is Professor in Financial Crime at the University of West England, UK. Jon Tucker is Professor of Finance and the Director for the Centre for Global Finance at the University of the West of England, UK. Umut Turksen is Professor of Law and Business at Kingston University, UK.