With its refined, updated Third Edition, Banking Law and Regulation again takes its place as the most effective foundation text available on the law surrounding traditional commercial banks and other depository institutions. the new edition builds on the comprehensive yet concise approach on which instructors have come to depend. As before, The Third Edition: explains the nature, content, and scope of the rules that regulate banking in ways that make the material meaningful and relevant to students encompasses the history, regulation, regulatory powers, and globalization of financial institutions examines the role of the bank in modern society including explorations of policy implications makes enlightening connections between traditional commercial banks and other depository institutions employs an effective cases-and-notes pedagogy that blends clear introductions to legal concepts with a mixture of rhetorical and problem-like questions begins with a strong introductory history and overview of banking, nontraditional depository institutions, and banking regulation, giving students a solid foundation on which to build their understanding provides regular updates through an annual Statutory Supplement addressing recent developments and new cases In the New Edition - a wide variety of changes, improvements, and updates, including: a new co-author, Richard Scott Carnell, who draws on his expertise in both legal practice and teaching revised chapters on Securities Powers of Banking Institutions and International Banking, that cover these crucial topics more accessibly an expanded index for quicker access to specific coverage the latest cases and changes in the law, especially the Gramm-Leach-Biley Act of 1999 updated coverage of antitrust and other important legislative developments