Regulation
ECB attacks Brussels over hedge-fund rules
Concern comes after British authorities warned on rules
Barofsky: US Treasury abdicated responsibility for AIG
Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Assets Relief Program (Sigtarp), accuses US Treasury of "abdication of responsibility" over AIG retention bonuses
Living wills the way forward: Britain’s FSA
Britain’s Financial Services Authority also calls for higher capital and liquidity requirements
Fed names new supervision head
Fed names Patrick Parkinson as Roger Cole’s replacement
King’s speech elicits mixed reaction
Commentators and politicians broadly support Bank governor’s call for break-up of biggest banks, but see no easy fix
King is right to call for radical reform of banking
Bank of England governor’s desire for fundamental overhaul should be applauded, Robert Pringle, the chairman of Central Banking Publications, argues
King calls for radical reform of banking
Bank of England governor pushes for root-and-branch reform, says Bank will detail macroprudential approach later this week
IMF’s Lipsky on lessons from past crises
IMF deputy managing director discusses what has been learnt from the crises, and how emerging markets have avoided the worst
Bank of Botswana – Banking Supervision Annual Report 2008
Central bank says banking sector was resilient despite crisis because of limited exposure, but anticipates ‘second-round’ effects
Ireland names new chief regulator
Bermuda Monetary Authority governor will take up senior post at central bank
BoE’s Posen backs governor on smashing up banks
Newest member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee sees case for limiting bank size “full stop”
Crisis underlines democracy’s flaws: ECB’s Bini Smaghi
Short-termism inherent in democratic government led to the lax supervisory regimes that paved way for banks’ excesses, says ECB board member
Greenspan: too-big-to-fail didn’t exist until crunch
Former Federal Reserve chairman believed government would allow failure until government-sponsored enterprises were taken into conservatorship
Ex-Fed’s Stern joins Finra board
Former president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve to become Financial Industry Regulatory Authority board member
Credit-card discrimination hard to prove
Federal Reserve Board finds no evidence of credit-card companies discriminating against minorities.
Basel Committee: trading-book capital requirements to soar
Basel Committee says new trading-book rules will result in much higher capital requirements
De Larosière: don’t rush regulatory reform
Former governor of the Banque de France warns governments against rapid change for the finance industry
What makes up the macroprudential toolkit?
Practitioners and supervisors discuss how supervisory policy will be made
Public banks good for growth
Central Bank of Cyprus finds that government ownership of banks has been associated with better long-run growth performance
Turkey’s Yilmaz: Islamic finance a force for stability
Central Bank of Turkey’s Durmus Yilmaz says Islamic finance is not boom-bust driven
Georgia to transfer supervision back to central bank
National Bank of Georgia to regain control of banking regulation in December just a year and a half after setting up of separate supervisor
Lamfalussy godfather of BIS’s macroprudence
National Bank of Belgium paper shows Alexandre Lamfalussy as the originator of the macroprudential approach to stability