Book description
How Countries Supervise their Banks, Insurers and Securities Markets 2012 provides key information about each regulatory agency: its history, its internal organisation and how it works with other regulators nationally and internationally.
The book equips you to:
- Make contact with key individuals: the 2012 edition lists contact details for over 3,500 senior regulatory staff around the world, enabling you to quickly identify and make contact with the decision-makers 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: Researched and updated every year, you will find in the 2012 edition up-to-date information about important regulatory changes all around the world. All available at your fingertips in a single volume.
Key features:
For all the leading financial centres, a concise introduction gives overview of the whole regulatory system.
For each regulator, the directory lists the lead contact for AML compliance.
Vital statistics - including a breakdown of central banks' regulatory responsibilities.
International coverage.
The 2012 edition includes details to the key authorities in new regulatory structures as well as hard-to-contact jurisdictions.
Book details
- ISBN
- 9781902182759
- Publish date
- 31 May 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Size
- 170mm x 245mm
Editor biography
Martina Horáková
Martina Horáková is the Head of Central Banking Advisory and Economic Researcher. She organises annual seminars on central bank governance, management and strategic planning. Martina also contributes to the Central Banking journal and news website CentralBanking.com. Before joining Central Banking Publications, Martina gained a masters degree in development economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her masters dissertation focused on the costs of foreign-exchange reserves accumulation in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and the Russian Federation. Prior to that, Martina had studied economics at the Freie Universität Berlin.



