Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance: Volume 17 Issue 4

The financial crisis in Europe: evolution, policy responses and lessons for the future

John Goddard, Phil Molyneux, John O.S. Wilson

The purpose of this paper is to provide an account of the financial crisis in Western Europe, primarily from a country‐level and banking sector perspective, from 2007 to the…

Actuarial insights into the global banking catastrophe

Robert S. Clarkson

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the underlying causes of the series of banking disasters that unfolded from July 2007 onwards and to suggest what action should be…

Value at risk: a critical overview

Robert Sollis

A misplaced reliance on value at risk (VaR) has been focused on in the media as one of the main reasons for the current financial crisis, and the recently published Turner Review…

The future of regulation

Joanne Hindle

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the regulatory and other responses to the recent credit crisis with particular emphasis upon likely regulatory reform.

The sub‐prime crisis, the credit crunch and bank “failure”: An assessment of the UK authorities' response

Maximilian J.B. Hall

The purpose of the paper is to explain how UK bank failure resolution policy has evolved since the nationalisation of Northern Rock in February 2008 in the light of the fallout…

The regulation of British retail banking utilities

Andy Mullineux

The purpose of this paper is to consider in the light of the post August 2007 banking crises, how “fair” access to retail banking services for British households and small‐ and…

Northern Rock shareholders' challenge to basis of compensation in nationalisation considered in high court and court of appeal

Joanna Gray

The purpose of this paper is to report and comment on Northern Rock shareholders' challenge to basis of compensation in nationalisation considered in the High Court and Court of…

Themed issue on the financial crisis

Robert Hudson