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Membership of Key Economies in International Organisations

This article discusses the membership of 43 key economies in the major international financial institutions. The aim is to assess whether the global financial architecture adequately incorporates the key economies. The article can also be found in this PDF-Document. The … Continue reading

22. June 2008 by kasi
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Summary of the recommendations of the Meltzer-Report

To assess the evolution of the Financial Architecture after the Asian Crisis, the Meltzer Report provides a good gauge for the critique of the USA and other G7 countries towards the International Financial Institution. The report is named after Allan … Continue reading

27. April 2008 by kasi
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Intergovernmentalism in Financial Regulation

Puzzling Complexity The global financial architecture is very complex. Despite increasing liberalization of financial markets, increased system risk and integration of the economies through the financial markets in the last 30 years, there is no single World Financial Authority regulating … Continue reading

22. April 2008 by kasi
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Corporate Governance and International Standards – Paper by Kern Alexander and Rahul Dhumale

In 2001, Kern Alexander and Rahul Dhumale published a paper on the relevance of International Standards for the Corporate Governance of Financial Institutions. Both the BCBS and the OECD have released Corporate Governance Principles (the OEDC in 2004, the BCBS … Continue reading

21. April 2008 by kasi
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Project: Mapping the Financial Governance

When academics, analysts and scholars analyze the causes and remedies for the current credit crisis, most of them analyze macro-economic trends such as exchange rate movements, or micro-economic changes such as Basel II. How the global financial architecture evolved and … Continue reading

20. April 2008 by kasi
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Overview of 2008 FSF Report on Financial Stability

The G7 Finance Ministers met yesterday at the IMF Spring Meeting and approved a report prepared by the Financial Stability Forum, the main forum bringing together Central Banks, Regulators and Finance Ministers. Before discussing the report in detail, it is … Continue reading

13. April 2008 by kasi
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JF – Joint Forum

Institution: Joint Forum Abbreviation: JF Type: Public Founded: 1996 Members Total: 3 Membership in: Membership of: BCBS, IOSCO, IAIS Description: Working Group: Risk Assessment and Capital; Conglomerate Supervision; Customer Suitability. Outreach: Reporting to: Website:http://www.bis.org/bcbs/jointforum.htm Highest Organ: The Joint Forum usually … Continue reading

02. April 2008 by kasi
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