Regulation
Use political will to reform finance: Buba’s Weber
Bundesbank’s Axel Weber says political momentum should be utilised to reform global financial market architecture
Basel Committee gets it right
William Isaac, a former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation who now heads LECG Global Financial Services, believes the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s accounting guidelines have much to recommend them
Banque de France review offers regulatory preview
Report features contributions from Jaime Caruana, Claudio Borio, Sheila Bair and Nout Wellink
ECB’s Stark –regulation must remain on the agenda
European Central Bank’s Jürgen Stark says policymakers should remained focused on improving regulatory framework despite economic “green-shoots”
Basel outlines plans to tighten bank regulation
Central bank governors and heads of supervision agree on raft of measures to rein in banks
US Treasury outlines banking reforms
Treasury wants standards to be as uniform as possible across jurisdictions
How the Philippines is responding to the crisis
Central Bank of the Philippines' Amando Tentangco Jr describes policy response to crunch
Call for "binding" pay rules on banks
Brown, Sarkozy and Merkel say G20 must act on pay, speculation
Ethics and values in the financial community
Reserve Bank of India's Duvurri Subbarao says no evidence bankers are inherently less ethical, just subjected to more temptation
Bright ideas and sombre moods
Malan Rietveld reports on a recent conference at the London School of Economics on the future of financial regulation
Building a more resilient financial system
The short-term focus that dominated policy, regulation, accounting and governance prior to the crisis has to be changed, argues Jacques de Larosière
Interview: William Isaac
The former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation tells Robert Pringle that procyclical accounting and capital rules lie at the heart of the crisis
SNB takes a historical view
Swiss National Bank examines data from past 102 years in new paper
Ratings agencies: regulate or downgrade?
Ludˇek Niedermayer worries that regulating ratings agencies will simply increase their influence and create the wrong incentives
Zeti: Islamic finance passed the crisis test
Bank Negara Malaysia’s Zeti Akhtar Aziz says the strength of Islamic finance was tested during the global financial crisis
Basel Committee devises accounting principles
Committee’s guidelines focus on provisioning, fair-value measurement
UK chief regulator would consider Tobin tax
FSA chairman Adair Turner says a Tobin tax could be levied on financial firms, making City of London global hub no longer key aim
Ex-Fed’s Volcker pans money-market funds
Paul Volcker calls for tougher rules for funds in order to create level playing field
Chile’s De Gregorio on reform
Central Bank of Chile’s Jose De Gregorio says financial reforms should target incentives of financial intermediaries’ management
Cyprus, Romania sign new memorandum of understanding
Central Bank of Cyprus and National Bank of Romania agree revised supervisory memorandum
Nigeria names and shames debtors
Central Bank of Nigeria list names some of the country’s richest people
RBA’s Edey: don’t push banks into the shadows
Reserve Bank of Australia’s Malcolm Edey on getting the balance on tougher regulation right
India’s Mohan: regulation to tackle procyclicality of banks funding
Reserve Bank of India deputy governor, Rakesh Mohan, says reliance on short-term wholesale market funding increased the sensitivity of banks' balance sheets and cost of funds
Nigeria’s Sanusi goes on sacking spree
Central Bank of Nigeria governor fires heads of five banks and injects N400 billion to ease debt crisis