1 Purpose and Operation of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee -- 2 Guaranty of Deposits Under the Banking Act of 1933 -- 3 Restructuring Banking: The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee’s Program for Banking Reform -- 4 Market—Value Accounting by Banks: Benefits, Costs and...

On November 20, 2006 the FMG organised a conference on 'Prompt Corrective Action & Cross-Borders Supervisory Issues in Europe'. This conference was the fourth and final in a series of events in the field of Regulation and Financial Stability that have been organised with the support of the...

Losses from bank failures have significant adverse implications for bank stakeholders, as well as for the macroeconomy. This article examines the potential sources of such losses, in particular the losses that may occur after the date a bank is failed, and makes recommendations on how to...

This paper examines the implications that alternative regulatory structures may have for resolving failed banking institutions. We place our emphasis on the European Union (EU), which is both economically and financially large and has several features relating to cross-border banking in the form...

Losses may accrue to depositors at insolvent banks both at and after the time of official resolution. Losses at resolution occur because of poor closure rules and regulatory forbearance. Losses after resolution occur if depositors' access to their claims is delayed or "frozen." While the sources...