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This paper examines capital adequacy regulation in Germany. After a short overview about financial regulation in Germany in general, the paper focuses on the most important development in the area of capital adequacy regulation from the 1930s up to the financial crisis. Two main trends are...
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, conditions, requirements, references and principles for the consolidated supervision of banks and non-bank financial institutions … quantitative) has to be considered as an essential element by the supervisory authorities in Albania based on the fact that a bank … or a non-bank financial institution is exposed to risks that result not only from its operations but from the operations …
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Policymakers' uneasiness about granting independence to financial sector regulators stems to a large extent from the lack of familiarity with, and elusiveness of, the concept of accountability. This paper gives operational content to accountability and argues that it is possible to do so in a...
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Many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean now publish financial stability reports. They use FSRs as a tool for financial surveillance and communication. This study reviews their latest issues to assess their content, quality, and transparency, and the extent to which the country's...
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the regulatory tightening on bank capital, lending spreads, and steady state output across ASEAN-5 and Turkey. Based on …
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for payment systems. Crisis management and bank resolution functions will also sit with the BoE.The new arrangements are …
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Today policymakers in all the countries, shocked by the financial crisis of the 2007-2008, are reconsidering carefully the features of their supervisory regimes. This paper reviews the changing face of the financial supervisory regimes introducing new indicators to measure the level of...
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maintained and even expanded. The administration's goal was to block its own appointee Federal Home Loan Bank Board Chairman …
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The UK is redesigning the institutional architecture of financial services supervision. The Financial Conduct Authority is meant to play a central role in the reformed system by delivering a new policy approach to the supervision of financial services conduct, which places considerable emphasis...
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This paper shows how the role of Financial Soundness Indicators (FSIs) in financial surveillance can be usefully enhanced. Drawing from different statistical techniques, the paper illustrates that FSIs generate signals that can accurately detect, with 4 to 12 quarters lead, emerging financial...
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