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  • Bank governance (English)

    Principles of good governance have been a major component of international financial standards and are seen as essential to the stability and integrity of financial systems. Over the past 10 years much...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 53771 Document Date: March 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ard,Laura A.,Berg,Alexander S.

  • The leverage ratio (English)

    Excessive leverage by banks is widely believed to have contributed to the global financial crisis. To address this, the international community has proposed the adoption of a non-risk-based capital measure...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 53044 Document Date: December 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: D'Hulster,Katia

  • Financial paradigms (English)

    What market and regulatory issues led to the subprime crisis? How should prudential regulation be fixed? The answers depend on the interpretative lenses or 'paradigms' through which one sees finance. The...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 53043 Document Date: November 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ize,Alain,De La Torre,Augusto

  • Banks in crisis (English)

    The current financial crisis evolved quickly. In most of the developed countries affected, governments initially improvised solutions that eventually led to substantial investments in systemically important...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 53042 Document Date: October 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Scott,David

  • Credit rating agencies (English)

    In the United States and Europe faulty credit ratings and flawed rating processes are widely perceived as being among the key contributors to the global financial crisis. That has brought them under intense...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 53041 Document Date: October 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Katz,Jonathan G.,Salinas Munoz,Emanuel,Stephanou,Constantinos

  • Macro-prudential regulation (English)

    This is not the first international banking crisis the world has seen. The previous ones occurred without credit default swaps, special investment vehicles, or even credit ratings. If crises keep repeating...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 50347 Document Date: July 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Persaud,Avinash D.

  • Trust less, verify more (English)

    Financial supervision will need to change in response to the causes of the financial crisis and the regulatory proposals arising from it. Supervisors will need to take a tougher and more challenging approach...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 50342 Document Date: July 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Briault,Clive

  • Dynamic provisioning (English)

    Dynamic loan loss provisions can help deal with procyclicality in banking. By allowing earlier detection and coverage of credit losses in loan portfolios, they enable banks to build up a buffer in good...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 50349 Document Date: July 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Saurina Salas,Jesus

  • Blanket guarantees (English)

    The expansion of deposit insurance and introduction of debt guarantees have played a crucial role in containing the financial crisis while giving governments time to develop suitable policy responses...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 50363 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Feyen,Erik H.B.,Vittas,Dimitri

  • The reform agenda (English)

    The financial crisis has prompted a shift toward a tighter and more macro-prudential approach to financial regulation. But the reform agenda still needs to address the role of supervisory (rather than...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 49515 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Stephanou,Constantinos

  • UCW newsletter (8) (English)

    This Understanding Children's Work (UCW) newsletter includes some of the following headlines: featured research: 1) child labor in India and Bangladesh: a preliminary gender based analysis; 2) child labor...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 49512 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author:

  • Smaller but safer? (English)

    Global trends taken for granted in recent decades, the big expansion in global financial assets compared with underlying economic activity, growing global financial integration, shrinking role of the state...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 49516 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Stephanou,Constantinos