Financial compliance : issues concerns and future directions Chapter 1. Understanding Compliance with Laws and Regulations: A Mechanism Based Approach; Anthony Bottoms. Chapter 2. Legitimacy and Regulatory Compliance; Justice Tankebe. Chapter 3. The Uncertain Professional Status of Compliance; James A. Fanto. Chapter 4. Compliance: From Soft Law to Hard Law—A view from France; Maria Lancri. Chapter 5. Living with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); Mark Foulsham. Chapter 6. Risk Based Financial Regulation and Compliance Officer Liability; Stuart Bazley. Chapter 7. Whistleblowing: The Neglected Facilitator of Compliance; Eva Tsahuridu. Chapter 8. The Skillset of an Effective Compliance Officer; Maria Krambia Kapardis. Chapter 9. Disentangling the Expectation Gap for Compliance Officers; Maria Krambia Kapardis; Salomi Demetriou and Ioanna Stylianou