Professor Danny Busch holds the Chair for Financial Law at Radboud University, Nijmegen, where he is also the Director of the Institute for Financial Law. He has published extensively, many of those publications written in English, including with OUP. He is a Research Fellow of Harris Manchester College and a Fellow of the Commercial Law Centre, University of Oxford. Guido Ferrarini is Emeritus Professor of Business Law and Capital Markets Law at the University of Genoa, Department of Law, and Director of the Centre for Law and Finance. He holds a J. D. (University of Genoa, 1972), an LL.M. (Yale Law School, 1978) and a Dr. jur. (h.c., Ghent University, 2009). He is founder and fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), Brussels. Gerard van Solinge is Professor of Corporate Law at Radboud University Nijmegen where he is a member of the scientific board of the research programme Company Law of the Business and Law Research Centre. He also practises as an attorney at Allen & Overy LLP and has written a number of books and articles.
Corporate governance is and remains important: weak governance at financial institutions, and at banks in particular, is often regarded as one of the underlying causes of the Great Financial Crisis. This view is confirmed by leading internationalorganizations, such as the OECD and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, as well as by national inquiries, including those by the US Financial Crisis Commission and the Walker Review in the UK. The book is therefore an important contribution to this debate, but goes further by extending the scope beyond banks. It adds value by broadening the debate to include, for example, insurance firms and investment firms ... The authors and editors have succeeded in presenting an interesting mix on governance at financial institutions, including ample details and discussion of the relevant EU legislation. * Ebbe Rogge, Leiden University, Common Market Law Review *