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Viewpoint: Bernhard Speyer and Norbert Walter

Will the European Union emerge from the financial crisis as the key regulator? The facts point to a fragmented approach that threatens any long-term, pan-national approach.
Costs and Benefits of Accounting-based Financial Regulation in Emerging Capital Markets

Gaming the numbers has emerged as part of the reason for the global crash. Yet accounting-based regulation brings real benefits, as recent Chinese regulations demonstrate.
Why Organizations Need to be Regulated—Lessons from History

Some organizations mismanage risks while others prosper. Regulation aims to ensure that risk is more effectively managed at both the national and pan-national levels.
The Effect of SOX on Internal Control, Risk Management, and Corporate Governance Best Practice

Threatening chief executives with jail for material misstatements in accounts made the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act famous worldwide. Its impact on reporting has been dramatic.
Solvency II: Its Development and Aims

This article describes Solvency II regulatory requirements for insurance companies, and its aims and purpose.

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An Information Framework for Financial Services Supervision

Andy Cox, Pat Galea, and Tim Franklin, IPL, and John A. Morrison, Asymptotix

Working together with Asymptotix, IPL has developed a vision for an information management framework to achieve “transparency” and to meet the tough conditions of supervision in financial services today—a solution blueprint to the increasing problems being presented. In this paper we outline the problems facing your business in understanding and reporting risk in a meaningful and useful manner, and suggest approaches to address these complex issues.

People who never get carried away, should be.
Steve Forbes (1947–), US publishing executive
Source: Town and Country (November 1976)

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