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Staff: Angela Knight

The view from Switzerland

written by Angela Knight on 27/06/2011

Our annual meeting with the Swiss Bankers’ Association is becoming an ever more important date in the financial calendar. As calls grow for global consensus on financial reform, the UK-Swiss round table provides an opportunity for people from Europe’s two largest banking centres to discuss the big issues around big banking regulation – macro-prudential supervision, the enhancing of capital requirements for the most systemically important banks and the ongoing process of ensuring no bank is too big to fail.

 
Staff: Brian Mairs

The regulator looks at how banks help borrowers in distress

written by Brian Mairs on 16/06/2011

Forbearance – the principle of taking a more lenient approach to people in debt to help them out of their troubles – should be considered by everybody uncontroversially as a good thing. But – as with everything in the economy – there is disagreement even here.

 
Staff: Brian Mairs

Dodd-Frank - a US law with a global impact

written by Brian Mairs on 09/06/2011

Any way you look at it, the new US law known as Dodd-Frank is a giant. More than 2,300 pages long, it creates new regulatory institutions for the US, including a Financial Stability Oversight Council , new capital and liquidity rules, restrictions of trading activities and an independent Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.

 

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