TY - BOOK AU - Arora, Anu TI - Practical banking and building society law. SN - 1854316281 PY - 1997/// CY - London PB - Blackstone N1 - Includes index; Content: The City of London as a financial centre -- What is a bank or bulding society? -- Regulation of the banking sector -- Regulation of building societies -- Banking and the single European market -- Customers -- The Bank account -- Creation of the banker and customer relationship -- Termination of the banker and customer relationship -- Negotiable instruments and the cheque as a bill of exchange -- Rights and liabilities of the parties to exchange -- Cheques on a banker and the protection of the paying and collecting banks -- Payment by plastic card -- Credit transfers and direct debits -- Remedies to recover money -- Bank finance -- Bankers' securities -- Recovery of bank advances -- Mortgage finance by building societies for house purchase ER -