Queen Mary, University of London

Mamiko Yokoi-Arai BA, MA, PhD (London)
Reader in International Finance Law and Regulation

Mamiko Yokoi-Arai specialises in research on financial regulatory issues, involving structural and institutional issues, and has been researching in the area of competition law and consumer protection of the financial sector. She has written on regulatory efficiency, deposit insurance, capital regulation, and WTO related topics. After working for the central bank of Japan for many years, where she was involved in policy issues of central banks, she has studied the financial systems of Asia closely.

She is currently on leave from CCLS, taking up a secondment with the Japanese government's Financial Service Agency where she is providing practical research for the various policy issues of the Agency. She is due to return for the academic year of 2008.

She has consulted for the International Monetary Fund, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and International Association of Deposit Insurers/Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Publications since 2001

Competition Policy in the Financial Sector, Financial Services Agency of Japan , May 2007 (in Japanese).

Financial Stability Issues: The Case of East Asia , London : Kluwer Law International, 2002, ISBN: 90-411-9878-4.

Financial Crises in the 1990s (Co-editor with Doug Arner and Zhongfei Zhou) London , British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2001, ISBN: 0-903067-52-8.

The Balance of Market Discipline in Bank Regulation in Lars Gorton ed., Breakdown of Public & Private Dichotomy in Commercial and Financial Law , Lund, Stockholm: Studentlitteratur, 2003, 81-105, ISBN 91-970371-2-5.

Single Regulator with a Twist in Doug Arner and Jan-jay Lin (Editors), Financial Regulation: A Guide to Structural Reform , Hong Kong: Sweet & Maxwell Asia , 2003, 257-285, ISBN 962-661-197-9.

A Glimpse at the New Financial Architecture through the Issue of East Asian Regional Institutionalization and Relevant International Law/Relations Theory in Joseph Norton ed., International Monetary and Financial Law Upon Entering the New Millennium-Tribute to Sir Joseph Gold, 2003, ISBN 0-903067-96-X

Regulatory Efficiency of a Single Regulator in Financial Services: Analysis of the UK and Japan [2006] 22(1) Banking and Finance Law Review (Fall 2006) ISSN 0832-8722, ISBN 0-459-23741-1.

Legal and Political Effects of Financial and Monetary Regional Integration in Asia [2006] 12(1) Law and Business Review of the Americas (forthcoming Winter 2006) ISSN 1571-9537

The Basel II in the national sphere [2005] EBRD Law in Transition (Fall 2005) http://www.ebrd.com/pubs/legal/lit052d.pdf.

The Relationship Between A Single Financial Regulator and the Deposit Insurance System: Analysing Japan [2005] 39(1) International Lawyer, 63-86, ISSN 0020-7810.

A comparative analysis of the financial ombudsman systems in the UK and Japan [2004] 5(4) Journal of International Banking Regulation, 333-357, ISSN 1465-4830/

The Evolving Concept of Operational Risk and its Regulatory Treatment [2003] 9(1) Law and Business Review of the Americas 105-138, ISSN 1571-9537.

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