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Publication date: 1 September 2004

Michael Foot

Michael Foot, one of the initial managing directors of the Financial Services Authority when it was founded in 1998, looks back over his six year period in office. He identifies…

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Michael Foot, one of the initial managing directors of the Financial Services Authority when it was founded in 1998, looks back over his six year period in office. He identifies the main external and internal challenges that the new body faced and explains how management sought to articulate and then deliver a new regulatory culture and language. He notes the continuing consumer unhappiness with many aspects of the financial services they buy. If we are to get away from this cycle of dissatisfaction, we must greatly improve the currently woeful level of financial understanding in the UK. The FSA itself faces a major extension of its powers in the near future and, at the same time, has to complete the transformation programme it began in 1998.

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Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, vol. 12 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1358-1988

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Publication date: 1 December 2002

Michael Foot

I have been a regulator now for nine years. But for many years before that, in an explicitly non‐regulatory career at the Bank of England, I was very conscious of the efforts…

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I have been a regulator now for nine years. But for many years before that, in an explicitly non‐regulatory career at the Bank of England, I was very conscious of the efforts being made ‐ especially between the Bank and the Federal Reserve ‐ to get a dialogue under way in what bankers now know as the Basel Committee. Founders of that Committee, such as George Blunden, no doubt watched in a mixture of awe and horror at the subsequent growth of the animal they helped to create. When Basel 1 was being formulated in the mid‐1980s, there was, of course, a widespread recognition that there were many different reasons why a bank could fail. But there was a general and accurate perception that credit risk was the primary threat. An ‘adequate’ amount of capital and the division of assets into a relatively modest number of credit risk buckets were seen as a truly significant step forward. And as to what was ‘adequate’ capital, I am told that 8 per cent was arrived at as the highest number they dared to think they could get agreement on. It did not fall out (nor could it have fallen out) of any complicated mathematical formula or extensive historical research.

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Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, vol. 10 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1358-1988

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Publication date: 17 October 2018

Michael A. Peters

In this chapter, educational philosopher Michael Peters discusses the emergence of new movements in thought and educational research practice in an “epoch of digital reason” that…

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In this chapter, educational philosopher Michael Peters discusses the emergence of new movements in thought and educational research practice in an “epoch of digital reason” that encompass the posthuman and decentered intimate scholarship. Peters describes changes that have occurred at the juncture of philosophy, culture, and science, probing the notion of a “coming after” of postmodernism in a post-truth era that has seen a rise in reactionary, anti-intellectual, anti-immigrant reaction across the Western world. Peters provides insight regarding this collection of changes in thinking, to which the decentering of subjectivity is critical, and even, as he suggests, one of the foundations of modern philosophy after Descartes. This shift in thinking across disciplines entails a turn to systems and ecological thinking; an understanding of consciousness as situated, distributed, and enacted; and a view of the world as constituted by productive difference. Other changes include connecting affect and cultural dimensions to research, which is expanding our view of science and what shapes science. Peters notes that these shifts turn us to new questions about rethinking concepts that are grounded in the liberal, intentional notion of the subject, such as agency and responsibility for one’s actions. As we engage in this rethinking, Peters suggests that we learn from indigenous studies, as indigenous peoples have been putting to work different forms of posthumanism for millennia.

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Decentering the Researcher in Intimate Scholarship
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ISBN: 978-1-78754-636-3

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Publication date: 1 May 1981

IN a recent Money programme on BBC TV Sir Monty Finniston was seen advocating the need for greater investment in industry as opposed to money being sent abroad to be invested…

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IN a recent Money programme on BBC TV Sir Monty Finniston was seen advocating the need for greater investment in industry as opposed to money being sent abroad to be invested either in Japanese industry or American real estate.

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Work Study, vol. 30 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0043-8022

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Publication date: 1 January 1985

Sophie Bowlby, Michael Breheny and David Foot

The previous article in this series (RDM November/December) examined techniques designed to search out areas of the country that might have potential for new stores. This article…

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The previous article in this series (RDM November/December) examined techniques designed to search out areas of the country that might have potential for new stores. This article looks more closely at finding the best site available within a chosen area. It discusses store turnover forecasting techniques, and also considers the question of assessing viability in product‐dominated markets.

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Retail and Distribution Management, vol. 13 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-2363

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Publication date: 1 February 1998

Andrew Hilton

The UK is undergoing a revolution in the structure of financial regulation that is being closely watched — but not necessarily emulated — around the world. The motivation for…

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The UK is undergoing a revolution in the structure of financial regulation that is being closely watched — but not necessarily emulated — around the world. The motivation for change was clear and, by and large, implementation is taking place in an admirably transparent way. But there must be real concerns about the relationship between the new Financial Services Authority and the Bank of England, the ‘consumerist’ orientation of the new legislation, the funding of the new regulatory structure and the regulation of complex groups.

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Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, vol. 6 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1358-1988

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Publication date: 1 May 1984

Sophie Bowlby, Michael Breheny and David Foot

Many retailers, conscious of the increasing difficulty of finding good, viable sites for stores, have recently been considering the large array of store location techniques now…

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Many retailers, conscious of the increasing difficulty of finding good, viable sites for stores, have recently been considering the large array of store location techniques now available to them. The success of the two seminars on store location organised by RMDP in February 1983 and June 1984, bear witness to this concern. However, these retailers are likely to find it difficult to assess the efficacy and suitability of the bewildering range of techniques offered. This article, and three to follow, attempt briefly to guide the interested but wary retailer through the technical maze.

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Retail and Distribution Management, vol. 12 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-2363

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Publication date: 1 June 2000

David Gerard

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Library Review, vol. 49 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0024-2535

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Publication date: 1 January 2006

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…

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Purpose

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 can best meet their challenges, noting especially that Basel II is going to make even more important the smooth working of home and host country regulatory co‐operation.

Design/methodology/approach

Contrasts are drawn from the author's personal experiences as a banking regulator in large and small centres and illustrated by examples from some of the latter. Likely reasons for regulatory “success or failure” in the smaller centres are then deduced and discussed.

Findings

Smaller host country regulators have limited resources but can leverage these in a number of ways. They are also already heavily dependent on the competence of the home regulators and their willingness to share information. Co‐operation is going to become more important with the adoption of Basel II. The success of what emerges will help determine the cost and effectiveness of large banks' overseas operations.

Practical implications

Home and host regulators need to make renewed efforts to co‐operate. One new initiative in the Bahamas is described to illustrate what might help.

Originality/value

The author is one of relatively few banking regulators who have worked at senior level in a large home country, is a small host country regulator and one who can therefore assess the issue from both sides of the fence.

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Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, vol. 14 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1358-1988

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Publication date: 1 May 1972

THE LATEST CONCORDE‐OBSERVER newspaper fracas suggests that the aircraft industry still does not appreciate the methods and effect of that loose‐knit bunch of strange bedfellows…

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THE LATEST CONCORDE‐OBSERVER newspaper fracas suggests that the aircraft industry still does not appreciate the methods and effect of that loose‐knit bunch of strange bedfellows, the anti‐aviation/technology lobby. One way or another, these people succeeded in having the TSR 2 axed and, but for the determination of the French, were well set to achieve equal success over Concorde. So they are certainly not to be dismissed lightly.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 44 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

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