Uneasy calm gives way to turbulence
In its’ quarterly review the Bank for International Settlements analyses international banking and financial market developments, warning that there is a gathering storm in the global economy, in part caused by…
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Better Markets report: The cost of the crisis
The report details that the 2008 financial crisis and the economic fallout it caused will cost the United States more than 20 trillion US Dollar. It is a reminder that implementation of the financial reform…
Reducing excessive variability in banks’ regulatory capital ratios
A BCBS report sets out measures to improve consistency and comparability in bank capital ratios, including policy proposals to revise the standardised approaches for calculating regulatory capital ratios, and reducing…
Competition in the financial markets
In a report the German Monopolies Commission analyses the development and the regulation of financial markets since the outbreak of the crisis. It says that since the financial crisis core competition principles…
Macroprudential policies: implementation and interactions
The Financial Stability Review of the Bank of France is a compendium with a wide range of articles on macroprudential policies and their interactions with other policies such as microprudential,…
IMF: implicit subsidies for G-SIBs up to 300 billion Dollar in the Euro area
An IMF report says that considerable implicit funding subsidy received by systemically important banks even rose during the crisis. The IMF calls enhancing capital requirements for SIBs and imposing a…