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August / September 2011: Special ReportContents
SPECIAL REPORT: No soft touch - The new regulators"More reporting, more regulators, more committees... doesn't lead to safer banking," - So says Bank of England Governor, Sir Mervyn King. And he’s now in charge of the new, sharper-toothed regulatory system that’s being built to replace the discredited “light touch” regime led by the Financial Services Authority. So, what’s in store exactly? Gradually, the thing is taking shape, more than a year after Chancellor Osborne announced the abolition of Labour’s tripartite system.
We know what the new regulators won’t do: “We won’t do tick-boxes,” says King. He’s certain that the new regulators can operate at lower cost and more effectively than their data-hungry predecessors by focusing on the major systemic risks. Here, Chartered Banker examines how.
“Judgment, not tick-boxes”“Regulators cannot rely on the judgment of the managements they supervise,” says Hector Sants, Chief Executive of the new Prudential Regulation Authority. So what are the new ground-rules? SHAYLA WALMSLEY examines just how different the new system will prove to be.
Champion for consumers“We used to talk about moral persuasion”, says research director Richard Reid. “This new regulator could encourage some banks to think about it.” SHAYLA WALMSLEY talks to him and others about the consumer protection challenge of the new Financial Conduct Authority.
The “bubble-beaters”“It’s possible to spot asset bubbles – but it’s difficult,” argues former Financial Services Secretary Lord Paul Myners. SHAYLA WALMSLEY examines the fresh thinking required by the new Financial Policy Committee being established inside the Bank of England.
Banking’s seven sinsThe global banking crisis was triggered by a long sequence of failures, each adding stress to the system until a collapse became inevitable. KEITH RUXTON and VINCE SLAVEN of Kinetik Training, examines the deadliest links in this destructive chain.
Out of the shadowsThere are two huge problems with “shadow banking”. The first is its clever ability to elude definition. And that leads to the second problem: because it’s so hard to define, it’s a real headache to regulate. ROWAN MORRISON reports.
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