| Description |
1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Routledge Research in Finance and Banking Law Ser |
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Routledge Research in Finance and Banking Law Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: Discrimination, Vulnerable Consumers and Financial -- Financial services, contractual autonomy and consumer protection -- Discrimination and financial services -- Existing empirical evidence and research -- Diverse approaches to tackling discrimination in the US and the EU -- Vulnerable consumers -- Consumer vulnerability in times of crisis -- Conceptualizing vulnerable consumers -- Typologies of consumer vulnerability -- A paradigm shift? -- Financial inclusion |
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The contributions -- Part I: #x85;#x85;#x85;#x85;human rights-centered and fair access to financial services: discrimination and financial inclusion -- Part II: #x85;#x85;#x85;#x85;consumer vulnerability: the role of financial technology and changing socioeconomic contexts -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part I -- 1. Tackling issues in consumer credit: The role of human rights -- 2. Beyond negative interpretations of freedom of contract: The interplay between private law and human rights in light of the UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities -- Introduction |
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I. The CRPD: a benchmark for a positive interpretation of freedom of contract? -- II. English contract law: a framework rooted in a negative interpretation of freedom of contract? -- Conclusion -- 3. Anti-discrimination efforts for insurance consumers: Legislation and practice in Mainland China -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The concept of an insurance consumer in Mainland China -- 2.1. Consumers -- 2.2. Insurance consumers -- 3. Anti-discrimination legislation to protect insurance consumers in Mainland China -- 3.1. Laws directly protecting insurance consumers |
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3.2. Laws on indirect protection of insurance consumers -- 4. Judicial practice relating to the protection of insurance consumers in Mainland China against discrimination -- 4.1. Case details -- 4.2. Reflections on the case -- 4.2.1. Development of law and society: integration and conflict -- 4.2.2. Remedies for aggrieved consumers -- 5. Challenges for insurance consumers wishing to make discrimination claims in Mainland China -- 5.1. Unclear legal definition of insurance consumer -- 5.2. Conflicts between legal interpretation and prevention of discrimination |
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6. The legislative trends in insurance consumers' discrimination claims in Mainland China -- 6.1. Personality rights in the Chinese Civil Code -- 6.2. The bank and insurance consumer complaints system -- 7. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4. Vulnerability, financial inclusion, and the heightened relevance of education in a credit crisis -- Part I: vulnerability of financial consumers -- Introduction: credit use as the entry point of vulnerability -- Aim, questions, and structure -- Vulnerability and access to low-cost credit |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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The link between the exploitation of vulnerable financial consumers and credit crisis |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gikay, Asress Adimi
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| ISBN |
9781000295092 |
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1000295095 |
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