The Law of Money and Financial Services in the EU

This fully revised and updated new edition of The Law of Money and Financial Services in the EU provides a detailed examination of this complex area of EU law and relates the development of economic and monetary union in the EU to the development of the single market for financial services. This edition reflects dramatic increases in both legislation and litigation in tax competition, tax evasion and tax discrimination payments and securities, and multiple Directives ib banking, payments and securities, and consumer protection. Usher also explores the EU's response to money-laundering, criminal activity and terrorism. He examines the history and provisions of the EU's money-laundering Directives along with measures taken under the 'third pillar' in police and judicial cooperation, and measures agreed under the 'second pillar' Common Foreign and Security Policy such as freezing assets and blocking monetary movements.