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With the creation of a single global market in financial services, the effective regulation of banks at the international level has become essential. This work offers a comprehensive examination of the development and structure of the provisions for the control of international financial markets. It explores the background to the major financial crises of the late 20th-century and the nature of the global response, beginning with the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of managed exchange rates and the resulting establishment of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in 1974. The author describes the structure and operation of the Committee and examines both the content of its core supervisory papers and the development of its more general regulatory programme. The emergence of increasingly complex international banking and financial conglomerates has required a fundamental revision of the traditional sector-based methods of supervision and regulation. The book examines the difficulties associated with the cross-border and cross-sector regulation of such groups and assesses the international response to these problems. Financial crises in Asia and elsewhere during the late 1990s generated further anxiety concerning the stability of the international financial market place. The causes of the crises are accordingly examined and the various responses adopted as part of an international financial architecture analysed in detail. This book addresses all the major factors involved in international banking supervision, conglomerate control and financial stability together in a single text. It should prove a useful reference and analytical tool for all those specializing in international banking and financial market control.

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Author:   George Alexander Walker
Publisher:   Kluwer Law International
Imprint:   Kluwer Law International
Volume:   v. 19
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.084kg
ISBN:  

9789041197948

ISBN 10:   904119794
Pages:   576
Publication Date:   01 December 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface. Introduction. Part I: The Basel Committee and Bank Supervision. 1. International Financial Market Instability and the Establishment of the Basel Committee. 2. International Banking Supervision and the Basel Committee Framework. Part II: Financial Conglomerates. 3. Conglomerate Law and International Financial Market Control. 4. Lead Regulation and International Financial Market Supervision. Part III: Financial Stability. 5. International Financial Crisis and the Financial Stability Forum. 6. Observations with Regard to the Continued Development of International Financial Market Supervision and Control. Selected Bibliography. Index.

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