Global Banks on Trial: U.S. Prosecutions and the Remaking of International Finance

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Pierre-Hugues Verdier (John A. Ewald Jr. Research Professor of Law, John A. Ewald Jr. Research Professor of Law, University of Virginia)

Global Banks on Trial

U.S. Prosecutions and the Remaking of International Finance

Pierre-Hugues Verdier (John A. Ewald Jr. Research Professor of Law, John A. Ewald Jr. Research Professor of Law, University of Virginia)

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Oxford University Press Inc
27 March 2020

Banking law; Corporate tax

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.

By: Pierre-Hugues Verdier (John A. Ewald Jr. Research Professor of Law John A. Ewald Jr. Research Professor of Law University of Virginia)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 163mm, Width: 236mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780190675776
ISBN 10: 0190675772
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 27 March 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Reviews for Global Banks on Trial: U.S. Prosecutions and the Remaking of International Finance

In his book, Verdier clearly demonstrates the shift in perspective regarding the impact of US prosecutions abroad and the efficiency of their resolution ... Verdier's book contributes to the wider discussion in international law of whether the efficiency of unilateral measures can be adequately balanced against the interests of sovereignty and establishment of international cooperation. * Xenia Lapin, Department of European, International and Comparative Law, University of Vienna, Journal of International Economic Law *