Can Banks Still Keep a Secret?

Sandra Booysen is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore and executive committee member of the Faculty's Centre for Banking and Finance Law. Her teaching and research interests are in the fields of contract and transactional banking. Dora Neo is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore and Director of the Faculty's Centre for Banking and Finance Law. Her teaching and research interests are in the fields of contract, banking law and secured transactions. This project was financed by the Centre for Banking and Finance Law, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore.

• Foreword; Part I. Bank Secrecy in Context: 1. A conceptual overview of bank secrecy Dora Neo; 2. Bankers' duties and data privacy principles: global trends, and Asia-Pacific comparisons Graham Greenleaf and Alan Tyree; 3. Bank secrecy and the variable intensity of the conflict of laws Chris Hare; 4. The international pressures on banks to disclose information Chizu Nakajima; 5. International developments in exchange of tax information Martha O'Brien; Part II. Bank Secrecy in Financial Centres around the World: 6. China Wang Wei; 7. Germany, with references to the EU Christian Hofmann; 8. Hong Kong Stefan Gannon; 9. Japan Reiko Omachi; 10. Singapore Sandra Booysen; 11. Switzerland Peter Nobel and Beat Braendli; 12. United Kingdom Keith Stanton; 13. United States of America Lissa Broome; 14. Conclusion Sandra Booysen.

'An authoritative and timely volume by leading international scholars on this pressing problem of our time. Containing not only an examination of bank secrecy in the major financial centres of the world but also an incisive discussion of the overarching issues that face policymakers seeking to strike the right balance between bank secrecy and public policy responses to the tax evasion and money laundering it facilitates.' Eva Lomnicka, King's College London