The Financial Sector Reforms Commission (FSLRC) which was set up in 2011 by the Ministry of Finance was mandated to study existing legislation and financial sector regulatory practices in India and to propose improvements. The FSLRC submitted its report in 2013 and four of its members recorded...

Immediately after the outbreak of the current pandemic crisis, the EU developed a (rather) consistent strategy, by taking measures in order to deal with health emergency needs, support economic activity and employment, preserve monetary and financial stability and prepare the ground for...

This occasional paper describes how the financial stability and macroprudential policy functions are organised at the ECB. Financial stability has been a key policy function of the ECB since its inception. Macroprudential policy tasks were later conferred on the ECB by the Single Supervisory...

In March 2012 a conference, organised jointly by the ICFR and SUERF, on "Future Risks and Fragilities for Financial Stability", explored what the next pressure points for financial stability might be, how these may arise from the response to the last financial crisis, and how the industry and...

A fundamental conclusion drawn from the recent financial crisis is that the supervision and regulation of financial firms in isolation - a purely microprudential perspective - are not sufficient to maintain financial stability. Rather, a macroprudential perspective, which evaluates and responds...

A fundamental conclusion drawn from the recent financial crisis is that the supervision and regulation of financial firms in isolation — a purely microprudential perspective — are not sufficient to maintain financial stability. Rather, a macroprudential perspective, which evaluates and...

This paper explores the advantages of a new financial charter for large, complex, internationally active financial institutions that would address the corporate governance challenges of such organizations, including incentive problems in risk decisions and the complicated corporate and...

This written testimony was presented on April 26, 2007, at a hearing on "Credit Card Practices: Current Consumer and Regulatory Issues," before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services. The testimony...

Analysis of the financial crisis has revealed not only major market and regulatory failures, but also shortcomings in supervisory approaches and in banks' systems of internal and external controls. These failures and shortcomings played a significant role in the origin and evolution of the...