Your legal aid for the fundamentals of banking law, this highly informative revised Law and Banking textbook explains and illustrates the basic principles of law and specific laws that affect the business of banking. You will learn the fundamentals of banking law pertaining to the various areas of banking, from check negotiation to lending to bank safety and soundness.
This eighteen chapter book supports the courses offered by the American Institute of Banking: Law and Banking Principles (Chapters 1 through 9), and Law and Banking Applications (Chapters 10 through 18) and is a great resource for bankers. Chapters cover the following topics:
- Sources of U.S. banking law and the roles of the judiciary and regulatory agencies
- Major torts and crimes that may occur in banking
- Customer relationships: individuals, sole proprietorships, agencies, partnerships, corporations, government agencies, limited liability companies, estates, and trusts
- Contracts: elements of, formation and enforcement
- Property: ownership, acquisition, transfer, and security interests
- Negotiable instruments: their requirements under the UCC and other laws
- Bank collections and returns: endorsement, transfer, and presentment of negotiable instruments as governed by the UCC and federal regulation
- Corporate responsibility in banking: ethics and codes of conduct
- Deposits: the laws and regulations that protect bank deposits and depositors
- Consumer and real estate lending: the legal protections provided to borrowers and the rights and responsibilities of banks when offering credit and making loans
- Bankruptcy law and the protections afforded to debtors and creditors
- Trust, insurance, and securities: the legal expectations of banks as fiduciaries and as providers of insurance and securities products
- International banking: how global trade and investment activities of U.S. banks are directed by domestic and international law
- Marketing: laws and regulations that govern bank marketing practices
- Safety and soundness: laws that help protect bank assets, guard the deposit insurance system, and reduce risk in the banking system
- Information reporting: bank responsibilities to report financial and customer information and to protect customer privacy
Special features include:
- Case studies for discussion and review
- Key terms in sidebars to highlight
- Interesting and important facts in sidebars
- Exhibits to illustrate concepts
- Self-check review questions for each chapter and with answers at the end of the text
- Additional resources, including Internet Websites
- A glossary of important terms and an index
AIB Course Code:
Law & Banking: Applications - 3670
Law & Banking: Principles - 3660
Recommended Instructional Hours: 15-30-45
Recommended AIB Credit: 15-30-45
ICB Credit: 45 (CCTS, CLBB, CRCM)
Text
Softbound, 572 pages, ©2008
Catalog #3004226; ISBN 0-89982-612-1
$119.00 List Price
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Instructor's Manual on CD-ROM
Catalog #3004227; ISBN 0-89982-613-X
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