A comprehensive commentary on banking law and practice including legislation.
Edition/issue: 32
Published: February 2026
Publisher: LexisNexis South Africa
A comprehensive commentary on banking law and practice including legislation.
Practical and concise, Banking Law and Practice contains a discussion of the case law, legislation, common law principles and the work of academics pertaining to banking and the law with the relevant public and private law dealt within one volume.
The publication discusses topics such as the Banking Association, the Code of Banking Practice, the Banking Enquiry, the Uniform Customs and Practice, the Compliance function, client acceptance, money laundering, the contractual relationship between bank and client, delictual liability, electronic banking, the National Credit Act, and the National Payment System.
Banking Law and Practice is intended as a concise but comprehensive guide for practitioners and students alike.
The publication includes the Banks Act in the second binder and the Banking Regulations in the second and third binders. Updated annually.
Available in print (looseleaf) and online format. Print includes updates for 12 months, thereafter updates are billed annually in advance. Online format must be added to a Lexis+ base package. Visit www.lexisnexis.co.za/lexisplus for more information.
Main Binder
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Banks
Chapter 3 - Registration of banks
Chapter 4 - Auditing of banks
Chapter 5 - Banks and the Companies Act
Chapter 6 - Foreign banks
Chapter 7 - Corporate governance of banks
Chapter 8 - Banks and money-laundering
Chapter 9 - Client-acceptance policy
Chapter 10 - Compliance policy
Chapter 11 - Money-laundering-control and anti-terrorism policy
Chapter 12 - Conflict of interest
Chapter 13 - The Banking Association of South Africa and related matters
Chapter 14 - Banks under curatorship
Chapter 15 - The contractual relationship between banks and their clients
Chapter 16 - Interpretation of contracts and other documents
Chapter 17 - Contractual liability
Chapter 18 - Delictual liability
Chapter 19 - Delictual liability of the collecting bank
Chapter 20 - Electronic banking
Chapter 21 - The Reserve Bank
Chapter 22 - Mutual banks
Chapter 23 - The National Credit Act
Chapter 24 - Prescription
Chapter 25 - Provisional sentence
Chapter 26 - Security
Chapter 27 - Actio Pauliana
Chapter 28 - Enrichment
Chapter 29 - Estoppel
Chapter 30 - Evidence
Chapter 31 - The in duplumrule
Chapter 32 - The Uniform Rules for Collections and the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits
Chapter 33 - The National Payment System
Chapter 34 - Bills of exchange
Chapter 35 - Aspects of criminal law and proceedings
Chapter 36 - Multi-bank financing
Chapter 37 - The Consumer Protection Act
Appendix: Recent interest rates
Appendix: The Code of Banking Practice
Star Binder
Legislation: Banks Act and Banking Regulations
Two Star Binder
Legislation: Banking Regulations