How Countries Supervise their Banks, Insurers and Securities Markets 2008 profiles the 500+ agencies responsible for supervising banks, insurance companies and securities firms, identifying the key decision-makers in 196 jurisdictions.
How Countries Supervise their Banks, Insurers and Securities Markets 2008 provides key information about each regulatory agency, covering history, internal organisation and how they cooperate with other regulators nationally and internationally.

This book will help you to:

• Make contact with key individuals: the 2008 edition lists contact details for over 2,200 senior regulatory staff around the world, enabling you to quickly identify and make contact with the relevant individuals in any one of

hundreds of agencies;

• Understand quickly legal mandates and responsibilities; the powers, responsibilities and functions of each agency are profiled concisely to allow you to quickly understand their work;

• Keep up-to-date with important changes: because our researchers contact all of the profiled agencies every year. You will find in the 2008 edition up-to-date information about important regulatory changes all around the world. All available at your fingertips in a single volume.

Key features:

The facts...fast
For all the leading financial centres, a concise introduction gives overview of the whole regulatory system.

Anti money laundering
For each regulator, the directory lists the lead contact for AML compliance.

Vital statistics
Senior regulators, responsibilities, staffing levels, budgets, number and type of institutions supervised.

Expanded international coverage
The 2008 edition includes details to the key authorities in new regulatory authorities as well as hard-to-contact jurisdictions.

Editor, Robert Pringle, is Managing Director of Central Banking Publications. Before starting Central Banking, Robert was for several years Editor of The Banker and subsequently he was closely associated with the establishment of the well-known ″think tank″, the Group of Thirty, where he served for seven years as the first Executive Director based in New York. He was also for three years a Senior Fellow at the United Nations institute called WIDER in Helsinki.