Bank and Customer Legal Relationship

Author: Tan Lirong
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: The banking laws of countries with developed financial industries, such as the United Kingdom and the United States, have a significant impact on the development of the international economy and finance. This book primarily focuses on the legal relationship between banks and clients in the United Kingdom and the United States, with an emphasis on the protection of clients' financial privacy rights by banks, the duties of care and trust owed to clients, as well as the conflicts of interest and checks and balances between banks and clients. Using comparative and case analysis methods, the book systematically explores the relevant legal issues in the relationship between banks and clients in the United Kingdom and the United States, and draws on British and American legislation and practices to propose recommendations for establishing and improving China's banking legal system. The book delves into the essence of the legal relationship between banks and clients in the common law system, the obligations of British and American banks to protect clients' financial privacy rights, the duties of care and trust owed to clients, as well as the conflicts of interest and checks and balances mechanisms between banks and clients. It also conducts an in-depth study of the conflicts of interest and checks and balances mechanisms in the legal relationship between Chinese banks and clients, as well as the establishment and improvement of financial privacy rights and information disclosure systems. This book holds significant theoretical guidance for improving China's financial legislation and regulating the relationship between bank clients at this stage.
The features of this book lie in: First, it adopts a research perspective focusing on the conflict between financial privacy rights and information disclosure, the value orientation of British and American banking behavior, and the diversified roles and conflicts of interest of British and American banks. It takes the different contractual relationships between banks and clients at different times and levels as the starting point to explore the balance of interests and rights protection mechanisms in the legal relationship between banks and clients in the United Kingdom and the United States. Second, from the perspective of credit risk and rights protection, it conducts a dedicated chapter study on the conflicts of interest and rights protection in the legal relationship between Chinese banks and clients, reviews the background, current status, and development of relevant existing legislation in China, and proposes related legislative recommendations. The exploration of the legal relationship between banks and clients, analyzed from the perspective of financial credit, allows for a more profound study. The practical significance of researching the legal relationship between banks and clients lies in establishing the concept of credit risk in market economic activities, establishing and improving mechanisms for checks and balances, risk-bearing, and rights protection.