Governance, Regulation & Compliance

RESTORING TRUST   By Paula Green   Custodians are dealing with the impact of major regulatory reforms and a loss of confidence in investors' services safety after the devastation of the MF Global debacle.   The expanding web of government ...

NEWSMAKERS: UNITED KINGDOM   By Anita Hawser   Hogg: Code will be catalyst In the wake of the financial crisis, which highlighted the need for higher levels of engagement between the boards of companies and significant shareholders, corporate governance is ...

United States   By Gordon Platt   All change: Climate risk moves up the corporate agenda The US Securities and Exchange Commission opened a can of worms with its decision to require companies to consider the effects of climate change ...

COVER STORY: FINANCIAL REGULATION   By Justin Keay   Businesses can expect to see their top-line costs rise under new banking regulations in the US and Europe. Will it be money well spent?   If in pre-credit-crunch days policymakers uttered ...

NEWSMAKERS: GLOBAL   By Anita Hawser   Anderson: Inconsistent regulation raises risks It’s official. Political leaders across the G20 group of countries are ready to make the banks pay for the financial crisis. At the G20 summit in Toronto toward ...

NEWSMAKERS: GLOBAL   By Laurence Neville   The focus of regulatory reform in the wake of the financial crisis has inevitably been on the banking sector. Equally, most analysis of regulatory reform has addressed the impact of regulatory change on ...

COVER STORY: BANKING   Bankers and regulators are beginning to lay out the future structure of the global financial industry. In the short term, it is set to be a deeply confusing place.   By Nick Kochan     It ...

  Global   By Anita Hawser   Johns: Compliance is key to avoiding another crash Senior banking and compliance officers surveyed by compliance solutions provider Complinet are already talking about the next financial crisis, which they believe will happen within ...

Tomorrow’s Battleground For Banks   Banks and regulators worldwide are starting the new decade at loggerheads, but signs are slowly beginning to emerge that point to the future shape of regulation.   By Nick Kochan   Banks are on the ...

President Obama's determination to do "whatever it takes" to rebuild the economy appears to be paying off. But it is his actions across the whole range of policy initiatives that will have the greatest impact on global corporations.   By ...

CENTRAL BANKER REPORT CARDS 2008 ANNUAL SURVEY/ CENTRAL BANKER REPORT CARDS Contributors: Antonio Guerrero, Anita Hawser and Gordon Platt History will judge whether the actions taken by central bankers during the past year to rescue financial institutions from the clutches ...

SPOTLIGHT CORPORATE FRAUD Crumbling asset values and wild volatility have left a trail of disaster in their wake. They also exposed some truly shocking frauds.     Abbey: “If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is” In ...

BITTER MEDICINE GLOBAL REGULATION     The case for global regulation of the banking and finance industry has become much stronger as a result of the recent crisis. The prospect of creating a workable system, though, is as remote as ...

UNITED KINGDOM       Darling: Favors a collegiate cross-border regulation system.   Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling has been criticized for his handling of the Northern Rock bailout, and he is the subject of an Internet campaign ...

Changes in regulations are forcing top corporate executives to focus on beefing up their companies’ data security. As IT and information security become ever more critical to the success of any organization, they are no longer just the concern of ...

THE AMERICAS The US administration’s assertion that its dollar policy remains unchanged did little to clarify exactly what that policy is, analysts say. President Bush’s comments in early June that the dollar was devalued inappropriately and that the administration’s policy ...