This book on the competition law aspects of financial services is part of a series, entitled the European Practice Library, which seeks to cover a number of individual sectors of European Community business law. Dividing naturally into two sections, the text covers, first, the harmonization measures taken by the Community in the financial services sector and, secondly, the application of the EC competition law rules to financial services. According to the Preface, it is not written for experts in the field or for beginners but assumes that the reader has some knowledge of banking and insurance practices as well as some understand-