Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
The Document contains an overview of the G8 Action Plan on the developments of local currency bond markets and the implementation report.
The overview-report looks at the problems identified by the G8 Action Plans, Task delegated to various institutions and results given from the implementation report. It is subdivided into ten ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
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 chart (left) lists 21 international organizations. Some of them are grouped ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
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 H. Meltzer, an economist and prominent critic of the Bretton-Woods-Institutions.
In ...
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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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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
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 essential to get an overview of what the FSF is ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Institution: International Organisation of Securities Commissions
Abbreviation: IOSCO
Type: Private
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Membership in: FSF,JF
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Institution: Joint Forum
Abbreviation: JF
Type: Public
Founded: 1996
Members Total: 3
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Membership of: BCBS, IOSCO, IAIS
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Working Group: Risk Assessment and Capital; Conglomerate Supervision; Customer Suitability.
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Website:http://www.bis.org/bcbs/jointforum.htm
Highest Organ: The Joint Forum usually meets three times per year.
Chair: John C Dugan, Comptroller of the Currency, United States
Seat: Basel
Function: To discuss regulation ...
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