Sunday, April 20th, 2008
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 how that influences the probability of crisis is very rarely discussed. ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Institution: Committee on the Global Financial System
Abbreviation: CGFS
Type: Public
Founded: 1971
Members Total:
Membership in: FSF
Membership of: ECB
Description: The Committee has a mandate to identify and assess potential sources of stress in global financial markets, to further the understanding of the structural underpinnings of financial markets, and to promote improvements to the ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Institution: Committee on Payment and Settlement System
Abbreviation: CPSS
Type: Public
Founded:
Members Total:
Membership in: FSF
Membership of: ECB
Description:
Working Group: Sub-Group on Foreign Exchange Settlement Risk, Working group on clearing and settlement arrangements for OTC derivatives, Working group on system interdependencies
Outreach: The Committee has developed relationships with many non-CPSS central banks in ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Institution: Group of 10
Abbreviation: G10
Type: Public
Founded: 1964
Members Total: 11
Membership in:
Membership of: BIS, OECD, European Commission, IMF
Description: The Group of Ten is made up of eleven industrial countries (Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States) which consult and co-operate on ...
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