Books

Central Banking Publications publishes a range of specialist books, directories and research studies for central bankers, financial market authorities and related professionals and practitioners. The publications focus on three main areas: central banking itself, financial regulation and supervision, and international finance, and speak to the practical and policy needs of the central banking community. They are regularly supported by sponsorship from industries working with central banks.

Recently published titles include Central Bank Directory 2012, How Countries Supervise their Banks, Insurers, and Securities Markets 2011, Sovereign Asset Management for a Post-Crisis World and The Future of Central Banking.

In 2012, Central Banking Publications will publish books on management, accountability, and banknote and currency management. A full list of forthcoming books is available on request or can be viewed at riskbooks.com/cb

To view and order all available Central Banking titles visit the Risk Books website.

Just published

The Central Bank Directory 2012

Edited By Martina Horáková

Now in its 22nd year, The Central Bank Directory is the only single source of detailed contact information for more than 4,500 senior central bankers and their institutions.

For anyone needing to do business with central banks or understand modern central banking, not to mention the central bankers themselves, a copy of the Directory is indispensable.

The Central Bank Directory remains unchallenged as the only provider of comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date information on all the central banks in a single manageable volume.

Individual entries feature a factual profile of each of the world's central banks, European national central banks and regional Federal Reserves as well as central banks' representative offices.

The Directory expertly guides the user through the changing world of central banking to enable them to go quickly to the information they require.

Each entry lists the decision-makers for key institutional functions such as risk management, reserve management, payment systems, financial stability, supervision, IT, legal risk, audit, communications and personnel.

For over two decades central bankers and those who work with them have depended on the Central Bank Directory as an unrivalled source of reliable information on the central banks. It is renowned for its accuracy and its usability.

Price: £220 / $372 / €331

For further information and to order your copy visit RiskBooks.com/cbd12.

How Countries Supervise their Banks, Insurers and Securities Markets 2011

Edited By Martina Horáková

How Countries Supervise their Banks, Insurers and Securities Markets 2011 is the only single source of contact details for key regulatory decision-makers in 193 jurisdictions.

How Countries Supervise profiles the 500+ agencies responsible for supervising banks, insurance companies and securities firms around the world.

At a time of unprecedented change in the world of financial regulation and supervision, it provides up-to-date information on personnel and institutional changes - all available at your fingertips in a single volume.

How Countries Supervise their Banks, Insurers and Securities Markets 2011 provides key information about each regulatory agency: its history, its internal organisation and how it works with other regulators nationally and internationally.

The book equips you to:

• Make contact with key individuals: the 2011 edition lists contact details for over 3,000 senior regulatory staff around the world, enabling you to quickly identify and make contact with the decision-makers in any one of hundreds of agencies;
• Understand quickly legal mandates and responsibilities; the powers, responsibilities and functions of each agency are profiled concisely to allow you to quickly understand their work;
• Keep up-to-date with important changes: because our researchers contact all of the profiled agencies every year. You will find in the 2011 edition up-to-date information about important regulatory changes all around the world. All available at your fingertips in a single volume.

Key features:

The facts...fast
For all the leading financial centres, a concise introduction gives overview of the whole regulatory system.

Anti money laundering
For each regulator, the directory lists the lead contact for AML compliance.

Vital statistics
Senior regulators, responsibilities, staffing levels, budgets, number and type of institutions supervised.

Expanded international coverage
The 2011 edition includes details to the key authorities in new regulatory structures as well as hard-to-contact jurisdictions.

Price: £215 / $363 / €323

For more information and to order your copy, visit RiskBooks.com/hcs2011

Sovereign Asset Management for a Post-Crisis World

Edited By Donghyun Park

Sovereign investors have endured unheard of swings in the performance and valuation of their investments. Catastrophic losses have been followed by record gains as markets dived and then bounced back around the world. The consequences for sovereign wealth funds have been far-reaching.

Losses on high-profile investments became a matter for political and public debate, ushering in a new era of transparency. The plight of domestic economies led to declining contributions, direct calls on the funds and in some cases demands to invest domestically. More broadly, the crisis has led to funds reviewing their long-term goals, organisational and operational frameworks, investment and risk management, and, perhaps most importantly, how they manage expectations of their stakeholders.

Sovereign Asset Management for a Post-Crisis World features contributions from sovereign wealth managers from China Investment Corporation, Norges Bank Investment Management, Korea Investment Corporation, the Oman Investment Fund, CalPERS and the central bankers of Thailand, the Czech Republic and Colombia.

This book addresses the key issues from a practitioner perspective offering insights into how funds can respond and are responding.

Price: £200 / $338 / €301

For more information and to order your copy visit RiskBooks.com/sam

The Future of Central Banking

Edited By Robert Pringle and Claire Jones

The Future of Central Banking includes contributions from many industry leading experts who analyze the new world facing central banks. Many questions need to be answered and challenges, highlighted by the crisis, faced up to. The Future of Central Banking focuses on this rapidly evolving world and, drawing on a first class list of contributors, delivers lessons and improvements that can be taken from the crisis that challenged the excepted notions of all central banks and bankers.