Financial regulation in Africa
Subtitle: an assessment of financial integration arrangements in African emerging and frontier markets
By: by Iwa Salami
Series: Markets and the law
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company; Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780754679851; 9780754699569
Subjects: Financial institutions; Monetary policy; Law and legislation; Financial services industry; State supervision
Description: "In the wake of the global financial crisis, there has been a worldwide search for alternative investment opportunities, away from advanced markets. The African continent is now one of the fastest-growing economic regions in the world and represents a viable destination for foreign direct and portfolio investment. This book, which is the first comprehensive analysis of financial integration and regulation in Africa, fills a huge gap in the literature on financial regulation and constitutes an invaluable source of information to policy makers, investors, researchers and students of financial regulation from an emerging and frontier markets perspective. It considers how financial integration can facilitate African financial markets to achieve their full potential and provides a comparative study with the EU framework for financial integration and regulation. It assesses the implementation of effective regional and domestic infrastructures and how these can be adapted to suit the African context. The book also provides an assessment of government policies towards the integration of financial regulation in keeping with the regional agenda of the African Union (AU) and the African Economic Community (AEC)"--Unedited summary from book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.