Regulation
Fed governor pans accounting developments
Federal Reserve’s Elizabeth Duke says both FASB’s and IASB’s new approaches raise “number of concerns”
Bank’s Haldane stresses limits of regulation
Rules alone will not be enough to restore trust and spur a full recovery says Bank of England’s executive director for financial stability
Reducing regulatory arbitrage key challenge: RBI’s Thorat
Reserve Bank of India’s Usha Thorat says regulators must focus on minimising international regulatory arbitrage
Goodhart says regulatory outlook unclear
London School of Economics’s Charles Goodhart says the process of reaching international agreement has become more difficult
India profited from tailored reform: Chakrabarty
Reserve Bank of India’s Kamalesh Chakrabarty says progressive but cautious policies contributed to financial stability amid international financial turbulence
Self-regulation has its limits: France’s Noyer
Banque de France’s Christian Noyer says turmoil has underlined weaknesses in financial sector’s ability to police itself
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