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Finance & Development June 2007 Un-Chan Chung |
Korea: In Search of a New Compact Although it will take a long process of trial and error to build a well-balanced economy supported by an overarching set of accepted economic and social norms, Korea's political leadership can do a lot to improve things in the meantime. |
U.S. Banker June 2010 Robert Bliss |
It's the Interconnectedness, Stupid The IMF s reform ideas contained in its Global Financial Stability report evaluate the complexities of international risk that U.S. regulatory proposals ignore. |
Finance & Development September 2009 Andrew Crockett |
Rebuilding the Financial Architecture What needs to be done to strengthen financial regulation and supervision? |
Finance & Development March 1, 2001 Alvin D.L. Hilaire |
Economic Stabilization in the Caribbean Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago simultaneously tackled serious economic difficulties in the early 1990s. The results of their adjustment programs demonstrate that fiscal reform, supported by other policies, may be the key to achieving a sustainable recovery... |
Finance & Development December 1, 2005 Carstens & Luis I. Jacome H. |
Taming the Monster How Latin America's central banks survived hyperinflation to become guardians of price stability. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Kang & Miniane |
Global Financial Turmoil Tests Asia As the global financial crisis spreads, how will Asia weather the storm? |
Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Olivier Blanchard |
Cracks in the System The Economic Counsellor and Chief Economist of the IMF discusses what he thinks is needed to repair the damaged global economy. |
Finance & Development June 2009 Marek Belka |
Europe Under Stress The global economic crisis is testing the cohesion of the European Union |
BusinessWeek June 25, 2009 Michael Mandel |
Financial Rules: Why a Global Fix Is So Far Off The financial crisis just hasn't been bad enough for G-20 leaders to cede power to international regulators. |
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2011 Jack Milligan |
In the Eye of the Storm Former Comptroller of the Currency John C. Dugan speaks candidly about the financial crisis of 2008, the landmark Dodd-Frank Act and the need for minimum loan underwriting standards for the banking industry. |
Finance & Development September 1, 2001 James M. Boughton |
Was Suez in 1956 the First Financial Crisis of the Twenty-First Century? The IMF's lending to the four countries directly involved in the 1956 Suez crisis, and particularly to the United Kingdom, raised the institution's profile and established its role in helping member countries cope with international financial crises... |
Finance & Development March 2009 Amar Bhattacharya |
A Tangled Web Everyone agrees on reforming the governance of financial markets, but who will do what remains unclear. |
BusinessWeek September 17, 2009 Jeffrey E. Garten |
The Case for a Global Central Bank With world finance increasingly intertwined, we'll need one sooner or later. |
BusinessWeek July 19, 2004 |
Russia's Nervous Bank Depositors Fears are growing that Russia is on the verge of a full-scale banking crisis, after Guta Bank, Russia's 22nd-largest bank in terms of assets, closed its doors on July 6 following a run on deposits. |
Finance & Development September 2010 Ashok Vir Bhatia |
After the Supernova Crisis management lessons from the IMF's assessment of the U.S. financial system. |
Finance & Development March 2009 Pisani-Ferry & Santos |
Reshaping the Global Economy The economic and financial crisis marks the end (for now) of a rapid expansion of globalization. |
Finance & Development June 1, 2006 Andrew Sheng |
The Art of Reform Both domestic and global investors will look to regulatory assessments to judge for themselves the quality of Asia's market governance. And they might also want to remind themselves of the ancient dictum: he who knows the competition and himself wins in the global competitive game. |
Finance & Development June 2010 William Poole |
Principles for Reform In designing new policies for the financial sector, old-fashioned ideas are important. |
Finance & Development June 1, 2006 Burton et al. |
Asia's Winds of Change The path that Asian countries have traveled to growth and prosperity in the past 50 years will remain relevant for the future -- the embrace of openness, the commitment to macroeconomic stability, and the drive to adapt and reform in response to changing circumstances. |
Finance & Development March 2009 Brad Setser |
The Shape of Things to Come Individual national decisions, not international summits, will remake the global financial system. |
Finance & Development June 2011 |
Looking Under the Hood Bank capital ratios have improved since the crisis, but mainly because banks are lending less. |
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2007 Ben Johnson |
Small Banks, Big Risks In the new era of commercial real estate lending, federal regulators are pressuring even the smallest banks to upgrade their portfolio analysis capabilities to avoid the pitfalls of past downturns. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Ingves & Lind |
Stockholm Solutions A crucial lesson from the Nordic experience is the need for prominent state involvement in crisis resolution. |
The Motley Fool April 11, 2008 Tom Hutchinson |
Capital Ratio Fever Just as blood pressure and heart rate are vital measures of physical health, capital ratios are vital measures of the health and solvency of banks. Right now, those vital signs reflect a sick industry that's getting sicker. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2002 Keller et al. |
The Bottom Line Weaknesses in public and private sector balance sheets could be the sign of a crisis in the making. |
BusinessWeek September 26, 2005 Ian Rowley |
Rebuilding Japan's Banks Prime Minister Koizumi's finance-sector overhaul is driving Japan's recovery. It has also kept him in power. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Kang & Syed |
The Road to Recovery A View from Japan In Japan, new strategy for addressing both liquidity and solvency issues is needed. |
Bank Systems & Technology January 8, 2009 Christine Barry |
Banks Must Take Advantage of Opportunities Where They Find Them Lenders and borrowers have felt the effects as the subprime crisis has evolved into a credit crisis. The result has been strategy changes for many banks, and a greater emphasis than ever before on growing deposits. |
Finance & Development September 2010 Adelheid Burgi-Schmelz |
Finding New Data The global crisis revealed vast gaps in international financial statistics that authorities are working to fill. |
CFO March 1, 2008 Vincent Ryan |
Atonement Companies in all industries are paying for the transgressions of the banking sector. |
The Motley Fool March 24, 2011 Gretchen Wilmoth |
Investing in Smaller Banking What affects will new regulations have on smaller banks? |
Finance & Development March 2009 Kodres & Narain |
What Is to Be Done While there is enough blame to pass around, one key contributor to the global financial crisis was inadequate regulation. The scope of financial regulation needs to be revamped and the provision of liquidity improved. Here's how. |
Finance & Development June 2010 Cartas & McConagha |
Credit to the Private Sector Remains Weak Bank credit continues to fall despite the global recovery. |
Bank Systems & Technology March 27, 2008 Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
The Credit Crisis Has Increased Scrutiny on Trade Finance The global credit crisis has emphasized the importance of cash management while intensifying the spotlight on corporate governance and banks' risk management practices |
Finance & Development June 2010 Duvvuri Subbarao |
Redefining Central Banking Central banks must distill lessons from the global crisis and make concrete reforms. |
BusinessWeek June 12, 2006 Peter Coy |
Time for Banks to Ask, "What If?" With some financial institutions acting more like dare devils than mere risk takers, a systemic crisis may loom. |
CFO March 1, 2007 Rob Garver |
Nothing to Bank On Bank executives will undoubtedly spend much of the next year assessing the likelihood and impact of new rules, while at the same time trying to keep earnings growth on its upward trend. |
Finance & Development June 2009 Cihak & Mitra |
Losing Their Halo Many countries in central and eastern Europe are finding it hard to adjust to the new economic reality |
Investment Advisor October 2007 Jason Brady |
Bottleneck While driven by fundamental weakness in U.S. real estate, in particular subprime loans, the current liquidity crisis has become a general lack of confidence in banking and financial institutions globally. |
Finance & Development June 1, 2007 Burton & Zanello |
Asia Ten Years After A decade after the Asian financial crisis, the region is growing rapidly but still has a long to-do list. |
Bank Systems & Technology March 27, 2008 David Conroy |
Corporate Clients Increasingly Looking to Banks to Mitigate Trade Finance Risks How can banks pursue growth opportunities in global trade finance in, for example, emerging markets? What technology investments must banks make to meet these new demands? |
IDB America March 2003 |
Support in a time of crisis A senior IDB manager calls for greater equity in development |
Bank Technology News March 2007 Glen Fest |
Business Banking: Small Banks Beefing Up Commercial Capabilities Four in five community institutions say they will increase tech spending on capabilities such as cash management and imaging to attract corporate banking customers. |
Finance & Development June 2009 |
The Perfect Storm The IMF's Chief Economist explained in a November 2008 lecture how a crisis that began in mortgage-backed securities turned into the worst recession since the 1930s. |
Finance & Development June 2009 Berglof et al. |
A Tale of Two Crises Russia is still a resource-dependent economy that must diversify in a market-friendly way |
IDB America Jul/Aug 2000 |
Latest Approvals The following operations were approved in recent weeks by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) and the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF)... |
HBS Working Knowledge July 21, 2010 |
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation What do Harvard Business School faculty experts who conduct research on financial markets and regulation and who, in many cases, have held leadership positions in the financial sector, think about the bill and its intended (and unintended) consequences? |
The Motley Fool November 22, 2011 Matt Cropp |
In Pictures: Banks vs. Credit Unions in the Financial Crisis Credit union advocates argue that their financial institutions rode out the financial crisis better than commercial banks. Are their claims backed up by the numbers? |
U.S. Banker May 2008 Anthony Malakian |
Banks are Failing -- But It's Nothing Like the Old Days Today's bank failures have nothing on the savings-and-loan crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s. |
U.S. Banker May 2006 Conrad et al. |
Power, Progress and Public Responsibility A look at the people, organizations and events of historical significance whose individual and collective influence helped banking evolve to what it is today. |