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This article focuses on three recent proposed reforms to the international financial system: Basel III capital requirements, the enhanced use of supervisory colleges, and proposed bank resolution regimes. In addition to analyzing recent reform proposals, the article describes historical...
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This paper focuses on the relevance to emerging economies of three major financial reforms following the global financial crisis of 2007–2009: the improved capital requirements intended to reduce the risk of bank failure ('Basel III'), the improved recovery and resolution regimes for global...
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In the aftermath of bank proprietary trading losses in the 2007–09 crisis, the Basel framework uses stressed Conditional Value-at-Risk to set minimum capital requirements for proprietary trading portfolios, whereas the Volcker rule restricts their composition in the US. With or without this...
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This paper distils three lessons for bank regulation from the experience of the 2009-12 euro-area financial crisis. First, it highlights the key role that sovereign debt exposures of banks have played in the feedback loop between bank and fiscal distress, and inquires how the regulation of...
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Current theories of financial regulation suggest expanding rules-based formal state intervention to promote international banking stability. Such policy solutions should then be global in scope. This article instead argues that principles-based informal co- and self-regulation through domestic...
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seeks to control the amount of tail risk that large banks take in their trading books. However, banks around the world …
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The global financial crisis underlined that sound and effective bank regulation is vital to financial stability. Assessments of the global financial crisis invariably point to ineffective finance regulation and supervision as the main reasons for the onset of the crisis and its severity. In...
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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...
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banking regulation in the world, precise requirements and scope were reformed and implemented in response to crises and global … the paradigm from partial improvements under financial liberalization regime to a world-wide regulation tightening on the … basis of close coordination between regulators and supervisors in the world. The role of the G-20’s Financial Stability …
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Multi-agency financial stability committees (FSCs) have grown dramatically since the global financial crisis. However, most cannot direct actions or recommend to other agencies that they take actions, and most would influence policy actions only through convening and discussing risks. We...
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