1. Secured Transactions, Finance Sales and Other Financial Products and Services 1.1 Civil and Common Law Approaches to Financial Law. Credit Cultures and Transnationalisation 1.2 The Situation in the Netherlands 1.3 The Situation in France 1.4 The Situation in Germany 1.5 The Situation in the UK 1.

6 The Situation in the US 2. Financial Products and Funding Techniques. Private, Regulatory and International Aspects 2.1 Finance Sales as Distinguished from Secured Transactions: The Re-characterisation Risk 2.2 Modern Security Interests: The Example of the Floating Charge 2.3 Receivable Financing and Factoring. The 1988 UNIDROIT Factoring Convention and the 2001 UNCITRAL Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade 2.4 Modern Finance Sales: The Example of the Finance Lease.

The 1988 UNIDROIT Leasing Convention 2.5 Asset Securitisation and Credit Derivatives. Covered Bonds 2.6 Options, Futures and Swaps. Their Use and Transfers. The Operation of Derivatives Markets, Clearing and Settlement and the Function of Central Counterparties 2.7 Institutional Investment Management, Funds, Fund Management and Prime Brokerage 3. Payments, Modern Payment Methods and Systems.

Set-off and Netting as Ways of Payment. International Payments. Money Laundering 3.1 Payments, Payment Systems. Money and Bank Accounts 3.2 The Principles and Importance of Set-off and Netting 3.3 Traditional Forms of International Payment 3.4 Money Laundering 4.

Security Entitlements and Their Transfers through Securities Accounts. Securities Repos 4.1 Investment Securities Entitlements and Their Transfers. Securities Shorting, Borrowing and Repledging. Clearing and Settlement of Investment Securities 4.2 Investment Securities Repos.