Since the summer of 2007, participants in financial markets have been confronted by a crisis of their own making. In order to prevent the recurrence of a similar crisis in the future, the G-20 nations, at their finance summit in Washington on 15 November 2008, resolved to "ensure that all...

The recent international financial crisis was basically caused by the indiscreet extending of “subprime” loans to the American people for the purchase of property in the United States. Scholars have come up with various opinions in order to understand whether this was actually the cause of...

The case of Enron, and the long list of corporate collapses that followed in its wake, have uncovered a corporate America beset by deception, false accounting and bankruptcy. This paper is concerned with the limits to detecting corporate fraud through auditing. In particular, it attempts to...

At the Pittsburgh Summit in 2009, G20 countries announced their commitment to clear all standardized over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives through central counterparties (CCPs). Since then, CCPs have become increasingly important and there has been an extensive program of regulatory enhancements to...