Through its Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP), the Basel Committee (Committee) monitors the timely adoption of Basel III regulations by its members, assesses their consistency with the Basel framework and analyses the quality of regulatory outcomes. The RCAP is fundamental to...

This Detailed Assessment of the Observance of International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation for the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) discusses the preconditions for effective securities regulations and...

This report presents the analysis, findings, conclusions and recommendations of the evaluation of the Pacific Financial Technical Assistance Center (PFTAC) that was undertaken between April 26 and May 14, 2004

In the past decade, most of the EU New Member States experienced a severe credit-boom bust cycle. This paper argues that the credit boom-bust cycle was to a large extent the result of factors external to the region (“bad luck”). Rapid credit growth followed from a high liquidity in global...