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12 Aug 2012, 5:38 am by Securites Lawprof
For Diversity in the International Regulation of Financial Institutions: Redesigning the Basel Architecture, by Roberta Romano, Yale Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), was recently posted on SSRN. [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 6:38 am
Institutions like the G20, the IMF, the Basel Committee, UNCTAD, or the European Union take the lead in both short and long term responses to the crisis. [read post]
20 Jul 2012, 10:50 am by Simon Lester
  As was seen in the making of Basel III, private actors (such as bankers) play a critical role in shaping regulations. [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 9:12 am by admin
CIC is an investment vehicle organized by the Chinese Government for the purpose of investing the latter’s foreign exchange reserves, and controls Huijin, a Chinese Government-owned investment company organized to invest in Chinese financial institutions. [read post]
Upgrading the European Union (EU) prudential regime for banks in line with the Basel III proposals is an excellent example of both regulatory complexity and uncertainty. [read post]
10 May 2012, 9:45 am
As was seen in the making of Basel III, private actors (such as bankers) play a critical role in shaping regulations. [read post]
8 May 2012, 11:12 am by Simon Lester
; * Regional trade and investment agreements and their role in breaking the public/private divide; * The implications of the Doha Round’s collapse for international economic law governance; * The role of domestic administrators and courts in the operationalization of international standards; * The interaction of public and private international institutions; * The increasing influence of private actors on the development of international legal norms; and * The role and… [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 6:51 am by admin
    Still, Basel didn’t help – and more important that Mr. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 6:15 am by Mandelman
    So, do you remember the article I posted the other day about accounting for a pool of loans and how values are based on assumptions about the performance of the pool into the future? [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 7:44 pm
State Department); moderating will be Rosalyn Higgins (left) British Institute of International and Comparative Law, former ICJ President). [read post]
19 Mar 2012, 6:41 am
The authors have participated in most of these negotiating processes and use their first-hand knowledge as writers for the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Earth Negotiations Bulletin as they illustrate the changes that have taken place over the past twenty years. [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 9:27 pm by Jacob Katz Cogan
On February 29, 2012, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law will host a workshop on "Compliance with International Environmental Obligations: Holding States to Account. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 6:39 am by admin
  And it gets worse when those same financial institutions are taking losses in their non-sovereign lending:   Accordingly, when banks in Europe and elsewhere were pressured by supervisors to raise their capital positions, many chose to sell other assets and increase their commitments to sovereign debt, especially the debt of weak governments offering high yields. [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 6:56 am by admin
  Sober, Swiss, and secure   The 2008 Basel accords (broadly called ‘Basel II’) codified capital risk weighting requirements, intended to do two things: (a) aggregate total risks of a financial institutions, and hence quantify minimum capital requirements, and (b) encourage asset diversification. [read post]
1 Jan 2012, 10:56 am by James Hamilton
Many foreign banks play important market making roles in the trading of government securities in their home jurisdictions, she noted, and they also actively rely on government securities of their home jurisdiction to efficiently manage their liquidity and funding requirements at a global enterprise level.This is a practice that will be further reinforced in the future by new bank liquidity requirements that have been proposed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. [read post]
11 Dec 2011, 9:00 pm
        Strengthen capital requirements, moving far beyond what is envisioned in the current Basel Accord. [read post]
  Of all the examples I cite in my article, the most ambitious scheme for closer institutional connection has been developed and is currently being implemented by the Basel, Stockholm and Rotterdam Conventions (the so-called ‘chemicals cluster’) and supports the integration of political as well as  administrative agendas. [read post]
In this article I explore just one governance strategy — the creation of formal cooperative arrangements or other institutional linkages between Multilateral Environmental Agreements (‘MEAs’) — and argue that institutional connection provides an important mechanism for managing the consequences of fragmentation and improving the effectiveness of international environmental governance. [read post]
3 Nov 2011, 7:24 am by James Hamilton
Without clarifying the extraterritorial reach of Dodd-Frank, uncertainty will reign and U.S. financial institutions would be disadvantaged. [read post]