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The FSA: The first six years
Foot, Michael - In: Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 12 (2004) 3, pp. 201-205
Michael Foot, one of the initial managing directors of the Financial Services Authority when it was founded in 1998, looks back over his six year period in office. He identifies the main external and internal challenges that the new body faced and explains how management sought to articulate and...
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Cause v. consequence-based regulation: Basel III v. the Eurocodes
Vermorken, Maximilian A.; Vermorken, Alphons Th. - In: Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 19 (2011) May, pp. 111-116
/methodology/approach – The approach is based on studying the two selected regulation systems, Basel III and the Eurocodes and identifies how the … the financial regulation uses a cause-based approach to regulation, in which the causes of a crisis are found and … set of codes of practice. It is the trade-off between less regulation and increased responsibility. Originality …
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A macro-prudential perspective of financial regulation
Nguyen, Tristan - In: Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 19 (2011) July, pp. 289-297
Purpose – In the recent financial crisis, many observers have assigned monetary policy a central role in the crisis. Specifically, they claim that excessively easy monetary policy by the Federal Reserve in the first half of the decade helped to cause a bubble in housing prices in the USA. The...
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Co-operative and competitive enforced self regulation: The role of governments, private actors and banks in corporate responsibility
Ojo, Marianne - In: Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 19 (2011) May, pp. 139-155
fostered through monitoring and the involvement of governments in the regulation of firms. Design/methodology/approach – In …” view of government is advanced as having a fundamental role in the regulation and supervision of banks. Findings … – Governments have a vital role to play in corporate responsibility and regulation given the fact that banks are costly and …
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The reforms: a political safe haven or political suicide – is the Labour bubble bursting?
Chambers, Clare - In: Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 19 (2011) February, pp. 5-17
. Findings – The paper concludes that although the bank regulation needs to be reformed, it is debateable whether it is the time …. Originality/value – This paper offers an original insight into the political influences on banking regulation within the UK. …
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The metamorphosis of insider trading in the face of regulatory enforcement
Dorn, Nicholas - In: Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 19 (2011) February, pp. 75-84
in relation to regulation and enforcement. This paper examines aspects of this ongoing process and contributes to it. …
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Firm size and compliance costs asymmetries in the investment services
Gabbi, Giampaolo; Tanzi, Paola Musile; Nadotti, Loris - In: Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 19 (2011) February, pp. 58-74
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to find out how effectively implemented are measuring approaches to compliance and whether there is a correlation between the measures implementation, financial specialisation and international activity. The authors evaluate if the regulatory framework...
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Learning from pondlife and fishermen: towards a modular financial services industry
Walsh, Aidan - In: Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 19 (2011) November, pp. 312-322
Purpose – Haldane has suggested that modularity would add sustainability to the financial system. The purpose of this paper is to suggest a route by which such modularity might be achieved. Design/methodology/approach – The paper attempts to explore the micro-foundations of regulatory...
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Corporate governance law effect in Greece
Lazarides, Themistokles - In: Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 18 (2010) November, pp. 370-385
Purpose – Legislators legislate, but how feasible and effective the implementation and enforcement of these laws are and how congruent with the countries characteristics, is under doubt. The paper seeks to argue that the Greek law on corporate governance (CG) had no effect on the fundamental...
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The “day after” Basel 2: do regulators comply with banking culture?
Carretta, Alessandro; Farina, Vincenzo; Schwizer, Paola - In: Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 18 (2010) November, pp. 316-332
development of banking culture and representing basic goals of prudential regulation. …
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