This is the second of two texts concerning the Law of Finance. The first text,
Corporate Governance and Finance Law, introduced the reader to an overview of
finance law, which then proceeded to discuss the variety of methodologies of corporate
governance both in the United States and in other major countries. Thereafter,
we commenced a discussion of securities laws and regulations, in particular, the US
Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. We concluded the
text with a discussion of swaps, which was followed by a review of the actions taken
by nation-states to combat corruption. Two US statutes were incorporated in the
discussion in the first text, which will play a significant role in this text, namely,
the Sarbanes–Oxley Act and the Dodd–Frank Act. They were enacted under the
administrations of both US major political parties.