The International Handbook on Financial Reform

Download or read book The International Handbook on Financial Reform written by Maximilian Hall and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under growing pressure from within and outside their economies, countries around the world have embarked upon wide-ranging programmes of financial reform. This handbook provides country studies of contemporary developments in financial reform in a selection of both developed and developing countries from Western Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Australia. The outcome is an account of the contemporary world-wide attempt to refashion the way in which the financial services industry (and especially the banking sector) is regulated and supervised.