UPC: 9780190675776 | Global Banks on Trial: U.S. Prosecutions and the Remaking of International Finance (Hardcover)

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In the years since the 2008 financial crisis U.S. federal prosecutors have brought dozens of criminal cases against the world s most powerful banks charging them with manipulating financial indices helping their customers evade taxes evading sanctions and laundering money. To settle these cases global banks like UBS Barclays HSBC and BNP Paribas paid tens of billions of dollars in fines. They also agreed to extensive reforms hiring hundreds of compliance officers spending billions on new systems and installing independent monitors. In effect they agreed to become worldwide enforcers of U.S. law including financial sanctions-sometimes despite their own governments protests. This book examines the U.S. enforcement campaign against global banks across four areas: benchmark manipulation tax evasion sanctions violations and sovereign debt. It shows that U.S. prosecutors have unilaterally carved out a new role as global bank regulators heralding a fundamental shift in how international finance is overseen. Their ability to do so stems from U.S. control over access to vital hubs of the international financial system. In some areas unilateral U.S. actions have ushered in important multilateral reforms such as the rise of automatic tax information exchange and better-regulated financial indices. In other areas such as financial sanctions unilateralism has attracted protests from other states and spurred attempts to challenge U.S. dominance of international finance.