Improving Banking Supervision

Mayes, D.; Halme, L.; Liuksila, A.

Improving Banking Supervision shows how greater market discipline can be used to help improve the quality of banks and their management in a world of increasing complexity, size and innovation. The book is based on research undertaken in the Nordic countries and New Zealand, and set in an international context through reference and comparison to the experiences of banks throughout the EU and the US. The authors show how traditional methods of regulation, particularly across borders face limits and can impose substantial costs on customers. They propose alternatives for today's international banks, based on a network of incentives to prudential behaviour and focusing on three main issues: - the development of transparent corporate structures - the public disclosure of comparable meaningful information so that markets can assess banks - the implementation of effective means to allow banks to exit without unacceptable costs to society

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2001-05-22

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333948965

DOI: 10.1057/9780230288195

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 298