Research

Research

ICFR's Research Topics

The G20 Process – International Cooperation Versus Differing National Priorities

The recent financial crisis has brought about an initial consensus on the need for regulatory change amongst the G20 countries. After their meeting in Pittsburgh in summer 2009, the G20 Leaders published a Communiqué in which they expressed their joint commitments to build a more resilient international financial system... Read more

 
 

The Insurance Industry: Risk Transformation and Management, the Prospects for and Policy Issues Surrounding the Growth and Development of the Insurance Industry in the Emerging World

Although much of the focus of the regulatory response in the wake of this crisis has focused on the banking sector, the insurance industry too has been swept up in the turmoil and of course had been facing changing rules regarding its own capital requirements even before this crisis hit... Read More

 
 

The Aggregate Regulatory Response and the Costs of Intermediation. Banks’ Internal Costs of Capital and Business Models. Economies of Scale in Banking

While there is general agreement about the need for a new tighter regulatory regime being introduced, there is considerable uncertainty about how the new regulations on capital and liquidity will impact on the banking industry and its customer base... Read More
 

 

Regulation and Governance in the Emerging World

This research topic combines two key areas of the ICFR’s interests: first, financial development, structure and regulation in the emerging world and secondly, while the regulatory response around the world involves some combination of rules on capital... Read More
 

 

Financial Reporting – Is it Fit-for-Purpose?

As authorities around the world impose stricter monitoring and supervision rules on financial institutions, more attention is also being paid to the question of whether or not regulators, and investors, are adequately provided with the tools with which they can apply new and evolving regulatory standards... Read More
 

 

Philosophy of Regulation: Rules vs. Principles, Soft Law vs. Statutory Regulation

The purpose of this topic is to explore what regulation and regulatory reform is seeking to achieve, now that the world has moved beyond the “emergency outcome-based” phase of the regulatory response... Read More