Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance: Volume 14 Issue 1

Banking supervision in a smaller financial centre – problems and recipes for success

Michael Foot

To contrast the challenges for bank regulators in a physically small centre such as the Bahamas with those for regulators in New York or London. To identify how the small centres…

FSA enforcement process review

Richard Burger

To consider the recommendations made by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) enforcement process review (the review).

Basel II – an opportunity for convergence in the EU

José María Roldán

Seeks to present the personal viewpoint of the chairman of the Committee of European Banking Supervision (CEBS) on the opportunities for convergence afforded by the BASEL II…

Tackling cross‐border market abuse

Carlos Conceicao

This paper aims to explore the key challenges faced by regulators following the implementation of the market abuse directive (MAD) in developing a consistent approach to tackling…

The privatisation process and evolving share ownership structure of Mainland China's leading state‐owned enterprises

Paul B. McGuinness

China is in the midst of an aggressive privatisation process in which key state‐owned enterprises have already tapped, or have plans to tap, international capital through initial…

Strategies and benefits of developing a market for government securities

Juan Fernando Lucio

The purpose of this essay is to formulate practical steps in establishing a market for government securities. When such a market does not exist two issues are of critical…

Financial supervision in the Republic of Cyprus: the case for reform

Phoebus Athanassiou

Aims to examine the current financial scenario in Cyprus and to suggest medium‐term reforms to the institutional set‐up of Cypriot financial supervision.

What are the perils of separating banking regulation from the central bank's orbit in Latin America and the Caribbean?

Edgardo Demaestri, Federico Guerrero

Aims to review the potential risks associated with the separation of banking regulation from the orbit of the central bank in Latin‐American and Caribbean countries (LAC).

Internal risk control benchmark setting for foreign exchange exposure: The case of the Moroccan Dirham

Mazin A.M. Al Janabi

This paper seeks to provide foreign exchange risk measurement/management techniques and strategies that can be applied to investment and trading portfolios in emerging financial…

Challenges facing banking in emerging markets: A case study of the Tanzanian national payments systems

Iain Clacher, Joshua Doriye, Suleiman R. Mohamed, Tadeo Satta

This paper aims to consider the impact of modernizing payments systems within emerging economies.

New company law reform bill: Power to order greater disclosure of exercise of voting rights by institutional investors

Joanna Gray

To address the practical implications of the new company law reform bill.

Was former chairman of Shell Group denied procedural fairness in the FSA's enforcement action against the group?: Financial Services and Markets Tribunal gives preliminary ruling

Joanna Gray

To discuss the FSA's enforcement action against the Royal Dutch/Shell group, which had been found to have made false or misleading announcements regarding its proved hydrocarbon…

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