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The regulation of deposit-taking business -- EU banking law -- The conduct of retail banking and investment business -- The regulation of lending business -- The regulation of payment services -- Capital adequacy, liquidity, and large exposures -- Money laundering legislation -- The market regulators -- UK bank mergers and business transfers -- Foreign bank mergers -- Bank rescues and financial stability in the United Kingdom -- Cross-border reorganization and winding up of banks -- Deposit protection schemes -- The liability of the regulator -- The banker-customer contract -- Cheques -- Duties of the paying bank -- Duties of the collecting bank -- Electronic funds transfers -- The bank as a lender -- Syndicated loans -- Trading loan assets -- Swaps and derivatives -- Bank guarantees, performance bonds, and documentary credits -- Sources of bank liabilty.

Guarantees -- Security : characterization, formalities, and registration -- Types of security -- Charges over shares and other securities -- Charges over receivables -- Charges over bank balances -- Charges over real estate -- Charges over aircraft -- Charges over ships -- Financial collateral arrangements -- Lien and set-off -- Vitiating factors-financial assistance -- Transactions between companies and their directors -- Avoidance of security in insolvency -- The banker-customer contract in private international law.Cross-border financial services, consumer protection and unfair contract terms -- The banker's duty of confidentiality -- Freezing injunctions and international banks -- Execution proceedings and foreign deposits -- Liability for branch deposits and the impact of foreign law -- Economic sanctions -- Customer obligations and foreign law -- Islamic finance-principles and structures -- Islamic finance transactions in the courts -- Corporate and regulatory issues -- Harmonization and the development of the international Islamic financial markets.