Author: Southern Methodist University. Institute of International Banking and Finance
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
ISBN: 9041197176
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The question of how financial services should be regulated in the interests of consumers has never been more topical. The structure of the financial services industry is changing rapidly and the need for the law to keep pace with these changes has never been greater. This book examines the role of the law in the protection of the consumer, in particular the ways in which the law is, and could be, used to protect consumers when purchasing financial services. A prominent panel of contributors first examines the role of the European Union and the ombudsmen schemes operating in the United Kingdom in improving consumer protection. Eight expert papers present a detailed analysis of aspects of the various legal mechanisms protecting consumers in the banking, financial services, investments and insurance industries. The final part of the book is concerned with the important and controversial area of consumer credit. This unique work is a welcome contribution to a rapidly developing area of law, which has so far received little attention from commentators. It will be of great interest to those at the cutting edge of banking, financial services and consumer law, whether practicing lawyers or in-house counsel, and all those involved in advising consumers.
Consumer Protection in Financial Services
Author: Southern Methodist University. Institute of International Banking and Finance
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
ISBN: 9041197176
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The question of how financial services should be regulated in the interests of consumers has never been more topical. The structure of the financial services industry is changing rapidly and the need for the law to keep pace with these changes has never been greater. This book examines the role of the law in the protection of the consumer, in particular the ways in which the law is, and could be, used to protect consumers when purchasing financial services. A prominent panel of contributors first examines the role of the European Union and the ombudsmen schemes operating in the United Kingdom in improving consumer protection. Eight expert papers present a detailed analysis of aspects of the various legal mechanisms protecting consumers in the banking, financial services, investments and insurance industries. The final part of the book is concerned with the important and controversial area of consumer credit. This unique work is a welcome contribution to a rapidly developing area of law, which has so far received little attention from commentators. It will be of great interest to those at the cutting edge of banking, financial services and consumer law, whether practicing lawyers or in-house counsel, and all those involved in advising consumers.
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
ISBN: 9041197176
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The question of how financial services should be regulated in the interests of consumers has never been more topical. The structure of the financial services industry is changing rapidly and the need for the law to keep pace with these changes has never been greater. This book examines the role of the law in the protection of the consumer, in particular the ways in which the law is, and could be, used to protect consumers when purchasing financial services. A prominent panel of contributors first examines the role of the European Union and the ombudsmen schemes operating in the United Kingdom in improving consumer protection. Eight expert papers present a detailed analysis of aspects of the various legal mechanisms protecting consumers in the banking, financial services, investments and insurance industries. The final part of the book is concerned with the important and controversial area of consumer credit. This unique work is a welcome contribution to a rapidly developing area of law, which has so far received little attention from commentators. It will be of great interest to those at the cutting edge of banking, financial services and consumer law, whether practicing lawyers or in-house counsel, and all those involved in advising consumers.
Private Voluntary Health Insurance
Author: Greg Brunner
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 082138757X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
This book aims to help countries design and implement a legal framework for a viable private health insurance market, with rationale for insurance regulation, institutions involved, and standards and protections used in regulating private health insurance.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 082138757X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
This book aims to help countries design and implement a legal framework for a viable private health insurance market, with rationale for insurance regulation, institutions involved, and standards and protections used in regulating private health insurance.
Your Money, Your Goals
Author: Consumer Financial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781508906827
Category : Finance, Personal
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Welcome to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Your Money, Your Goals: A financial empowerment toolkit for social services programs! If you're reading this, you are probably a case manager, or you work with case managers. Finances affect nearly every aspect of life in the United States. But many people feel overwhelmed by their financial situations, and they don't know where to go for help. As a case manager, you're in a unique position to provide that help. Clients already know you and trust you, and in many cases, they're already sharing financial and other personal information with you. The financial stresses your clients face may interfere with their progress toward other goals, and providing financial empowerment information and tools is a natural extension of what you are already doing. What is "financial empowerment" and how is it different from financial education or financial literacy? Financial education is a strategy that provides people with financial knowledge, skills, and resources so they can get, manage, and use their money to achieve their goals. Financial education is about building an individual's knowledge, skills, and capacity to use resources and tools, including financial products and services. Financial education leads to financial literacy. Financial empowerment includes financial education and financial literacy, but it is focused both on building the ability of individuals to manage money and use financial services and on providing access to products that work for them. Financially empowered individuals are informed and skilled; they know where to get help with their financial challenges. This sense of empowerment can build confidence that they can effectively use their financial knowledge, skills, and resources to reach their goals. We designed this toolkit to help you help your clients become financially empowered consumers. This financial empowerment toolkit is different from a financial education curriculum. With a curriculum, you are generally expected to work through most or all of the material in the order presented to achieve a specific set of objectives. This toolkit is a collection of important financial empowerment information and tools you can access as needed based on the client's goals. In other words, the aim is not to cover all of the information and tools in the toolkit - it is to identify and use the information and tools that are best suited to help your clients reach their goals.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781508906827
Category : Finance, Personal
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Welcome to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Your Money, Your Goals: A financial empowerment toolkit for social services programs! If you're reading this, you are probably a case manager, or you work with case managers. Finances affect nearly every aspect of life in the United States. But many people feel overwhelmed by their financial situations, and they don't know where to go for help. As a case manager, you're in a unique position to provide that help. Clients already know you and trust you, and in many cases, they're already sharing financial and other personal information with you. The financial stresses your clients face may interfere with their progress toward other goals, and providing financial empowerment information and tools is a natural extension of what you are already doing. What is "financial empowerment" and how is it different from financial education or financial literacy? Financial education is a strategy that provides people with financial knowledge, skills, and resources so they can get, manage, and use their money to achieve their goals. Financial education is about building an individual's knowledge, skills, and capacity to use resources and tools, including financial products and services. Financial education leads to financial literacy. Financial empowerment includes financial education and financial literacy, but it is focused both on building the ability of individuals to manage money and use financial services and on providing access to products that work for them. Financially empowered individuals are informed and skilled; they know where to get help with their financial challenges. This sense of empowerment can build confidence that they can effectively use their financial knowledge, skills, and resources to reach their goals. We designed this toolkit to help you help your clients become financially empowered consumers. This financial empowerment toolkit is different from a financial education curriculum. With a curriculum, you are generally expected to work through most or all of the material in the order presented to achieve a specific set of objectives. This toolkit is a collection of important financial empowerment information and tools you can access as needed based on the client's goals. In other words, the aim is not to cover all of the information and tools in the toolkit - it is to identify and use the information and tools that are best suited to help your clients reach their goals.
Watchdog
Author: Richard Cordray
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197503012
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Every day across America, consumers face issues with credit cards, mortgages, car loans, and student loans. When they are cheated or mistreated, all too often they hit a brick wall against the financial companies. People are fed up with being run over by big corporations, and few have the resources or expertise to fight back on their own. It is no wonder consumers feel powerless: they are outgunned every step of the way. Since 1970, the financial industry has doubled in size. It is the biggest source of campaign contributions to federal candidates and parties, spending about $1 billion annually on campaigns and another $500 million on lobbying. The four biggest banks each now has more than $1 trillion in assets. Financial products have become a mass of fine print that consumers can hardly even read, let alone understand. Growing problems in the increasingly one-sided finance markets blew up the economy in 2008. In the aftermath, Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Sharing the stories of individual consumers, Watchdog shows how the Bureau quickly became a powerful force for good, suing big banks for cheating or deceiving consumers, putting limits on predatory lenders, simplifying mortgage paperwork, and stepping in to help solve problems raised by individual consumers. It tells a hopeful story of how our system can be reformed by putting government back on the side of the people, to strengthen our families, safeguard the marketplace, and establish a new baseline of fairness in our democratic society.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197503012
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Every day across America, consumers face issues with credit cards, mortgages, car loans, and student loans. When they are cheated or mistreated, all too often they hit a brick wall against the financial companies. People are fed up with being run over by big corporations, and few have the resources or expertise to fight back on their own. It is no wonder consumers feel powerless: they are outgunned every step of the way. Since 1970, the financial industry has doubled in size. It is the biggest source of campaign contributions to federal candidates and parties, spending about $1 billion annually on campaigns and another $500 million on lobbying. The four biggest banks each now has more than $1 trillion in assets. Financial products have become a mass of fine print that consumers can hardly even read, let alone understand. Growing problems in the increasingly one-sided finance markets blew up the economy in 2008. In the aftermath, Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Sharing the stories of individual consumers, Watchdog shows how the Bureau quickly became a powerful force for good, suing big banks for cheating or deceiving consumers, putting limits on predatory lenders, simplifying mortgage paperwork, and stepping in to help solve problems raised by individual consumers. It tells a hopeful story of how our system can be reformed by putting government back on the side of the people, to strengthen our families, safeguard the marketplace, and establish a new baseline of fairness in our democratic society.
Your Home Loan Toolkit
Author: Consumer Financial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530666010
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Buying a home is exciting and, let's face it, complicated. This booklet is a toolkit that can help you make better choices along your path to owning a home.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530666010
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Buying a home is exciting and, let's face it, complicated. This booklet is a toolkit that can help you make better choices along your path to owning a home.
Business and Commerce Code
Author: Texas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial law
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial law
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Social Innovation
Author: Helmut Anheier
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351655345
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Social Innovation: Comparative Perspectives investigates socio-economic impact. Since it is hard to establish causality and to measure social properties when investigating impact, especially at the level of society, the book narrows down impact to one priority aspect: social innovation – understood as organizations’ capacity to generate novel ideas, ways and means of doing things, of addressing public and social problems of many kinds. This volume’s primary assertion is that the Third Sector, specifically through stimulating civic involvement, is best placed to produce social innovation, outperforming business firms and state agencies in this regard. By investigating actor contributions to social innovation across seven fields of activity, Social innovation: Comparative Perspectives develops our understanding of why and how the Third Sector is central to functioning, cohesive and viable societies. This volume is based on contributions of the project "ITSSOIN – Impact of the Third Sector as Social Innovation" funded by the European Commission under the 7th framework programme. It will be of insight across disciplines, in particular to the growing social innovation community, innovation researchers more generally and to non-profit scholars. The practical relevance of the book will be of interest to European and national policy makers and practitioners across different sectors.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351655345
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Social Innovation: Comparative Perspectives investigates socio-economic impact. Since it is hard to establish causality and to measure social properties when investigating impact, especially at the level of society, the book narrows down impact to one priority aspect: social innovation – understood as organizations’ capacity to generate novel ideas, ways and means of doing things, of addressing public and social problems of many kinds. This volume’s primary assertion is that the Third Sector, specifically through stimulating civic involvement, is best placed to produce social innovation, outperforming business firms and state agencies in this regard. By investigating actor contributions to social innovation across seven fields of activity, Social innovation: Comparative Perspectives develops our understanding of why and how the Third Sector is central to functioning, cohesive and viable societies. This volume is based on contributions of the project "ITSSOIN – Impact of the Third Sector as Social Innovation" funded by the European Commission under the 7th framework programme. It will be of insight across disciplines, in particular to the growing social innovation community, innovation researchers more generally and to non-profit scholars. The practical relevance of the book will be of interest to European and national policy makers and practitioners across different sectors.
The Keys to Banking Law
Author: Karol K. Sparks
Publisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781641058100
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This updated edition is a comprehensive resource providing you with tools to demystify the complexities of banking law. The book guides you through today’s system of financial regulation. Sharing decades of accumulated legal learning, the author and contributors discuss their experience and knowledge as banking law professionals and educators providing tips on how to navigate the subject. 'The Keys to Banking Law' guides you through today’s system of financial regulation that is unlike anything else in the world. To that end, the guide: explores the history of banking law in the U.S. to provide context for the complexities of the law examines the bank family, with special emphasis on the unique dual banking system and holding company structure discusses the ?safety net? of FDIC insurance and the Federal Reserve discount window dedicates chapters to all of the myriad laws and regulations attributed to the ?specialness? of the banking charter unveils issues associated with safety and soundness and risk management examines how banks are supervised and examined, how law is enforced and what happens when a bank fails."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781641058100
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"This updated edition is a comprehensive resource providing you with tools to demystify the complexities of banking law. The book guides you through today’s system of financial regulation. Sharing decades of accumulated legal learning, the author and contributors discuss their experience and knowledge as banking law professionals and educators providing tips on how to navigate the subject. 'The Keys to Banking Law' guides you through today’s system of financial regulation that is unlike anything else in the world. To that end, the guide: explores the history of banking law in the U.S. to provide context for the complexities of the law examines the bank family, with special emphasis on the unique dual banking system and holding company structure discusses the ?safety net? of FDIC insurance and the Federal Reserve discount window dedicates chapters to all of the myriad laws and regulations attributed to the ?specialness? of the banking charter unveils issues associated with safety and soundness and risk management examines how banks are supervised and examined, how law is enforced and what happens when a bank fails."--Provided by publisher.
O'Connor's Texas Rules, Civil Trials
Author: Michol O'Connor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781884554766
Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781884554766
Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
Electronic Payment Systems
Author: Edward A. Morse
Publisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781634259620
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This guide explores innovations and the legal and technological questions presented in the banking and payment systems industry. Written by experts in the field, this book provides a topical discussion of the principal electronic payment systems utilized today and how they are ever changing to keep current with changes in technology.
Publisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781634259620
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This guide explores innovations and the legal and technological questions presented in the banking and payment systems industry. Written by experts in the field, this book provides a topical discussion of the principal electronic payment systems utilized today and how they are ever changing to keep current with changes in technology.