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Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Noel Sacasa |
Preventing Future Crises The financial crisis has exposed weaknesses in the current regulatory and supervisory frameworks and made it clear that we are in need of regulatory reform. |
Finance & Development September 2009 Andrew Crockett |
Rebuilding the Financial Architecture What needs to be done to strengthen financial regulation and supervision? |
Finance & Development March 2009 Amar Bhattacharya |
A Tangled Web Everyone agrees on reforming the governance of financial markets, but who will do what remains unclear. |
Finance & Development March 1, 2002 Haizhou Huang & S. Kal Wajid |
Financial Stability in the World of Global Finance To reduce their vulnerability to national and international financial crises, countries must address the weaknesses in their financial systems... |
Finance & Development December 2009 S. Raihan Zamil |
Too Big to Ignore Oversight of systemically important banks must be reevaluated |
Finance & Development March 1, 2002 Gerd Hausler |
The Globalization of Finance Financial globalization has brought considerable benefits to national economies and to investors and savers, but it has also changed the structure of markets, creating new risks and challenges for market participants and policymakers... |
Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Ingves & Lind |
Stockholm Solutions A crucial lesson from the Nordic experience is the need for prominent state involvement in crisis resolution. |
Finance & Development September 2010 Adelheid Burgi-Schmelz |
Finding New Data The global crisis revealed vast gaps in international financial statistics that authorities are working to fill. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Olivier Blanchard |
Cracks in the System The Economic Counsellor and Chief Economist of the IMF discusses what he thinks is needed to repair the damaged global economy. |
Finance & Development December 2010 |
Risky Business Global banks will adapt to the new international rules on capital and liquidity, but at what cost to investors and the financial system? |
Finance & Development September 2010 S. Raihan Zamil |
Judgment Day Changing the rules alone cannot make the financial system safe. The judgment of banking supervisors is crucial. |
Finance & Development September 2009 Randall Dodd |
Overhauling the System The United States is proposing the most radical reform of financial regulation since the New Deal. |
FDIC FYI January 14, 2003 |
Basel and the Evolution of Capital Regulation: Moving Forward, Looking Back How much capital is enough? How bank regulators have answered this question during the post World War II period has been shaped by two contending strands of thought. |
Finance & Development June 1, 2000 Tomas J.T. Balino & Angel Ubide |
The New World of Banking Four trends are fundamentally altering the financial world: consolidation of institutions, globalization of operations, development of new technologies, and universalization of banking. Each of these poses challenges for the effective supervision and regulation of the financial sector.... |
Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Kang & Miniane |
Global Financial Turmoil Tests Asia As the global financial crisis spreads, how will Asia weather the storm? |
Finance & Development September 1, 2000 Paul Hilbers, Russell Krueger, & Marina Moretti |
New Tools for Assessing Financial System Soundness Macroprudential indicators--defined broadly as indicators of the health and stability of the financial system--can help countries assess their banking systems' vulnerability to crisis. In recent years, an increasing amount of work has been done on such indicators... |
Finance & Development June 2009 Giovanni Dell'Ariccia |
Asset Price Booms: How Can They Best Be Managed? Not all booms are alike -- making the right call on which policies to deploy depends on how assets are held and who is exposed to a possible bust |
Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Kang & Syed |
The Road to Recovery A View from Japan In Japan, new strategy for addressing both liquidity and solvency issues is needed. |
U.S. Banker June 2010 Robert Bliss |
It's the Interconnectedness, Stupid The IMF s reform ideas contained in its Global Financial Stability report evaluate the complexities of international risk that U.S. regulatory proposals ignore. |
Finance & Development March 1, 2006 Hilbers, Otker-Robe & Pazarba |
Going too Fast? Managing rapid credit growth in Central and Eastern Europe. |
Finance & Development December 2010 |
Put to the Test Islamic banks were more resilient than conventional banks during the global financial crisis. |
Finance & Development March 2009 Adelheid Burgi-Schmelz |
Data to the Rescue Why improved statistical information will be key for prevention of future crises. |
Finance & Development June 2010 Duvvuri Subbarao |
Redefining Central Banking Central banks must distill lessons from the global crisis and make concrete reforms. |
Finance & Development September 2010 Ashok Vir Bhatia |
After the Supernova Crisis management lessons from the IMF's assessment of the U.S. financial system. |
Finance & Development September 1, 2005 Raghuram Rajan |
Straight Talk Risky Business Even as financial markets evolve, we have to constantly rethink the ways they are regulated and supported by policy, all the while being careful not to snuff out creativity and innovation. Only then will we be able to utilize their true potential. |
Bank Director 3rd Quarter 2009 John Berlau |
Overregulation Plan Won't Fix Financial Crisis Initial reports indicate that these early hopes of a more accountable regulatory structure from the Obama administration have been dashed. |
Finance & Development September 2008 Prasad & Rajan |
Next Generation Financial Reforms for India A new report advocates a shake-up in India's financial system to underpin growth |
Finance & Development September 2011 |
Unconventional Behavior Innovative balance sheet policies of central banks helped during the recession, but they should be used only in exceptional circumstances. |
Finance & Development September 2009 Carlo Cottarelli & Jose Vinals |
Looking Ahead Countries must begin now to devise economic strategies to accompany the recovery. |
Finance & Development June 2009 |
The Perfect Storm The IMF's Chief Economist explained in a November 2008 lecture how a crisis that began in mortgage-backed securities turned into the worst recession since the 1930s. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2002 Das et al. |
Financial Regulators Need Independence Granting more operational autonomy to the agencies that keep an eye on the financial sector can bolster financial stability. |
BusinessWeek June 18, 2009 Avinash D. Persaud |
How to Save the Financial System Regulators Redistributing risk, rather than trying to eliminate it, is the key to strengthening the world's banks. |
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2011 Jack Milligan |
In the Eye of the Storm Former Comptroller of the Currency John C. Dugan speaks candidly about the financial crisis of 2008, the landmark Dodd-Frank Act and the need for minimum loan underwriting standards for the banking industry. |
Finance & Development June 1, 2006 Andrew Sheng |
The Art of Reform Both domestic and global investors will look to regulatory assessments to judge for themselves the quality of Asia's market governance. And they might also want to remind themselves of the ancient dictum: he who knows the competition and himself wins in the global competitive game. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2002 Keller et al. |
The Bottom Line Weaknesses in public and private sector balance sheets could be the sign of a crisis in the making. |
Finance & Development June 2010 Mohamed A. El-Erian |
Sovereign Wealth Funds in the New Normal As the global financial crisis recedes, state-owned investment companies are well placed to seize a new set of opportunities and navigate changing risks. |
Finance & Development March 1, 2007 Leslie Lipschitz |
Wising Up about Finance With tighter links between national economies and global financial markets, better financial analysis is critical to macroeconomic management. |
Finance & Development June 1, 2006 Wim Fonteyne |
EU: From Monetary to Financial Union The choice is not between a centralized and a decentralized framework, but about the degree of centralization that will give Europe the best tools to manage risks to its financial stability without impeding the integration process itself. |
HBS Working Knowledge June 22, 2009 Roger Thompson |
"Too Big To Fail": Reining In Large Financial Firms The federal government should slap tough new regulations on all firms that pose "systemic risk" - the risk that a failure of one institution could wreak havoc across the entire financial system. |
Finance & Development September 1, 2002 Nsouli & Schaechter |
Challenges of the "E-Banking Revolution" Electronic banking is the wave of the future. It provides enormous benefits to consumers in terms of the ease and cost of transactions. But it also poses new challenges for country authorities in regulating and supervising the financial system and in macroeconomic policy. |
Finance & Development June 2009 S. Raihan Zamil |
Viewpoint: Regulatory Philosophy Matters Risk-based supervision sought to spur innovation and reward good behavior but helped bring about the global financial crisis. |
The Motley Fool October 27, 2009 |
The Treasury Answers Fools' Questions Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Neal Wolin answers Motley Fool readers' questions regarding regulatory reform. |
Finance & Development March 1, 2007 Mohamed A. El-Erian |
Dealing with Global Fluidity With new forces shaping global capital markets, participants in international finance are well advised to rethink their operating models. |
OCC Bulletin April 4, 2001 |
Leveraged Financing Guidance for bankers and examiners that more fully describes supervisory expectations regarding sound practices for leveraged financing activities. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Mohamed A. El-Erian |
A Crisis to Remember The current crisis is a defining moment for the global financial system and, by implication, for relationships between countries. |
Finance & Development June 2009 Kamil et al. |
A Hedge, Not a Bet Latin American companies used new techniques to protect against currency swings. But a few used them to gamble -- and they lost big. |
Finance & Development June 1, 2000 Anne Y. Kester |
Improving the Framework for Reporting on International Reserves During the international financial crises of the late 1990s, deficiencies were uncovered in the publicly available information on countries' international reserves. A new template and operational guidelines have been developed to promote improved disclosure of such data. |
HBS Working Knowledge July 21, 2010 |
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation What do Harvard Business School faculty experts who conduct research on financial markets and regulation and who, in many cases, have held leadership positions in the financial sector, think about the bill and its intended (and unintended) consequences? |
Finance & Development March 2010 Khamis & Senhadji |
Learning from the Past Countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council confronted the global financial crisis from a position of strength. |
Finance & Development March 1, 2000 Robert Rennhack |
Banking Supervision Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, like other emerging markets, have experienced banking system difficulties that have hampered growth and generated fiscal costs as high as 10 to 20 percent of GDP and even more. Many countries have improved their banking systems, but further reform is needed. |