The temptation for more protectionism has to be resisted. National reactions that try to hinder international capital flows or prevent foreign activities from being carried out in an efficient and fair manner weill reduce the benefits that the international economic cooperation has brought to...

At the time of writing this article, the credit crisis that has had its origins in the subprime markets in the US is more than a year old and has spread to other countries and other asset classes as well as the wider economy with a vengeance. Already last year, when some banks and financial...

This new report from the Geneva Association looks at the relationship between insurance wind-downs and systemic risk, concluding that frameworks for dealing with such risks in banking "would be a poor guide" to necessary changes in insurance. The report argues that all necessary recovery and...

Description of New international regulatory landscape and the IAIS response to challenges for insurance supervisors.

New Supervisory Architecture, European System of Financial Supervision, European Sytsematic Risk Bord, European Supervisory Authorities.

Leader's Statement of the G20 Pittsburgh Summit, What's Systemic Risk, Framework for Mitigating Systemic Risk, Japanese Safety-net for Deposit-taking Financial Institutions...