First regulations of securities firms were going back to Banking Crisis emerging at early 1980's. The number of securities firms in Turkey were booming in the late 1980's and early 1990's but the sector has been shrinking as a trend in terms of number of the securities firms nearly more than a...

We analyze the reaction of stock returns and CDS spreads of banks from Europe and the United States to four major regulatory reforms in the aftermath of the subprime crisis, employing an event study analysis. In contrast to the public perception that nothing has happened, we find that financial...

The Comissao de Valores Mobiliarios - Brazil Securities Commission (CVM) has made substantial progress since the 2002 Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP). In 2002 the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) assessment rated 8 principles fully implemented and 22...