The aim of this essay is to provide an overview of the Financial Stability Board's (FSB) mandate and tools to safeguard financial stability and reduce systemic risks based on the methodological perspective of a legal analysis. It examines some of the recommendations that the FSB has published,...

The global, euro-zone, and Asian financial crises have highlighted the importance of appropriate regulatory design and coverage for financial stability. In particular, in the wake of the global financial crisis the Group of Twenty (G20) and the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and its...

Privacy plays an ever increasing role in the virtual world of electronic services. Privacy rules of a WTO Member trying to achieve a high level of data protection, however, could jeopardize the cross-border delivery of electronic services. Such kind of rules cause the risk of being qualified as...

The G-20 has been established more than 10 years ago as a reaction to the Asian financial crisis without - at first - gaining much weight on the international scene, however, the financial crisis of 2007/08 has caused a re-vitalization on a higher level, namely as body of the "G-20 Leaders". The...