After the destructive impact of the global financial crisis of 2008, many believe that pre-crisis financial market regulation did not take the "big picture" of the system suffciently into account and, subsequently, financial supervision mainly "missed the forest for the trees". As a result, the...

Even as the United States enjoys an economic expansion, there is an undercurrent of concern among economic analysts who follow financial markets. Some feel that the expansion of the credit derivatives markets poses the threat of a crisis similar to the Long-Term Capital Management debacle of...

This paper examines the issues surrounding the implementation of global regulatory reforms - spearheaded by the G20 and mainly under the aegis of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) - in Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), Myanmar, and Viet Nam (BCLMV)....