How Countries Supervise their Banks,
Insurers and Securities Markets 2007

Understand how financial institutions in 190+ jurisdictions are supervised

         
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How Countries Supervise their Banks, Insurers and Securities Markets 2007, which is sponsored by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, is published in January 2007.

I greatly welcome the publication of this directory of international regulators. It will serve as a useful resource for us all.” Sir Callum McCarthy, UK Financial Services Authority

“This directory of international regulators is a useful tool
for enabling communications that will benefit us all.”, Jane Diplock, Chairman, IOSCO Executive Committee

"very useful - particularly for the more obscure countries", Senior New Accounts Officer TD Securities

“I have also been able to resolve the occasional compliance issue quickly for other work colleagues who did not know where to readily turn”, CAU Manager Royal Sun Alliance


Regulators and practitioners are legally obliged to understand how the world' s financial regulatory authorities regulate financial firms. Yet counterparties can operate from any one of almost two hundred jurisdictions.

Ensuring adequate understanding becomes doubly difficult when regulatory responsibilities and critical legislation change each year.

How Countries Supervise their Banks, Insurers and Securities Markets 2007 offers a solution to this dilemma. It shows how financial institutions are supervised in all 196 jurisdictions. This completely updated edition offers readers:


• Expanded country profiles giving an overview of regulation in the two dozen most important financial centres;
Named anti-money-laundering contacts within regulatory agencies;
• A unique guide to the international regulatory standard-setters.

Benefits for users

  • Find out fast who regulates which firms in over 190 jurisdictions: for each of the 190+ jurisdictions the directory profiles the 500+ agencies responsible for regulating banks, insurance companies and securities firms;
  • Identify which types of firms are licensed: in addition, the directory lists in detail which kinds of firms are licensed by the ï¤ different regulatory agencies
  • Find information on individual firms: Increasingly, regulatory authorities publish a register of regulated firms. The 2007 edition includes details of how to access these registers, allowing you to find information about authorised institutions in minutes not hours;
  • Make contact with key individuals: the 2007 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 2007 edition up-to-date information about important regulatory changes all around the world. All available at your fingertips in a single volume.

Useful background

The directory profiles the key information about each regulatory agency, covering history, internal organisation and how they cooperate with other regulators nationally and internationally.

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.

Key statistics
Staffing levels, budgets, number and type of institutions supervised.

Expanded international coverage
The 2007 edition now includes details to the key authorities in hard-to-contact jurisdictions such as Afghanistan ; Iran ; Kosovo; Libya ; Puerto Rico ;
Qatar ; Syria ... and many more.

 

Price: single copy
£165 (UK)
£175/US$333/280 (outside UK)
Price: 2 to 4 copies

£145 (UK)
£155/US$295/248 (outside UK)

Special offers are available for bulk orders of 5 or more copies. Email:
sales@centralbanking.co.uk

ISBN
1-902182-480
978 1902182 48 3
Date of Publication
January 2007
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Foreword

Introduction

Cambodia

Kuwait

Liechtenstein

South Africa



         

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