Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance: Volume 19 Issue 4

Learning from pondlife and fishermen: towards a modular financial services industry

Aidan Walsh

Haldane has suggested that modularity would add sustainability to the financial system. The purpose of this paper is to suggest a route by which such modularity might be achieved.

Post‐crisis financial reform: where do we stand?

Alessandro Giustiniani, John Thornton

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of current progress in financial sector reform and outline some of the remaining challenges.

Basel III's ability to mitigate systemic risk

Stefan Schwerter

The financial crisis 2007‐2009 calls for a regulatory response. A crucial element of this task is the treatment of systemic risk. Basel III gains centre stage in this process…

The financial regulation of energy and environmental markets

Ivan Diaz‐Rainey, Mathias Siems, John K. Ashton

The purpose of this paper is to examine the financial risks posed by energy and environmental markets and how these risks are addressed by current regulatory regimes and…

Chronology of banking reforms in Nigeria: A survey of past and present theoretical and empirical literature

Ahmad Bello Dogarawa

Governments of many developed and developing countries have designed and implemented various financial reforms to enable the sector to play the role of efficient financial…

Systemic surcharges and measures of systemic importance

Sigbjørn Atle Berg

There is an emerging consensus that systemically important banks should face stricter regulations and systemic surcharges. To make this latter principle operational the regulator…

Legality of payment protection insurance compensation arrangements examined on judicial review

Joanna Gray

The purpose of this paper is to discuss R (on the application of British Bankers Association) v. Financial Services Authority and another (Queens Bench Division: Administrative…