Financial authorities face a number of key challenges, including maintaining financial stability; ensuring long-term finance for stable economic growth; promoting greater access to financial services for both households and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs); and fostering a competitive...

1. Financial reform in Australia -- 2. Price stabilization, the banking crisis and financial reform in Brazil -- 3. Financial reform in Canada : past, present and future -- 4. Financial system reform in China -- 5. Financial reform in Germany -- 6. Financial reform in Hong Kong -- 7. Financial...

Welcoming Remarks (Hiroshi Okada) -- Session 1: Financial System Stability and Competition in the Financial Industry -- Keynote Speech: Current Situation, Challenges and Future of Regional Finance in Japan (Hisashi Ono) -- Session 2: Finance to SMEs through Banks, Capital Markets and Other...

"Asian financial systems, which serve the most economically dynamic region of the world, survived the global economic crisis of the last several years. In this book scholars argue in separate essays that Asian systems must strengthen their quality, diversity, and resilience to future shocks in...