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       Posted on September 5th, 2011

ICFR Response to Consultation Paper No. 77 on ‘Proposals relating to corporate governance and remuneration standards applicable to authorised persons’

According to the ICFR, it is critical to create incentives for good corporate governance to encourage equity investment and direct foreign investment. Indeed, it is important not to impose constraints which would encourage companies and investors to look more favourably on listing and investment opportunities respectively elsewhere. It is therefore critical to get [...]


       Posted on October 26th, 2010

Capital Regulation after the Crisis: Business as Usual?

The paper discusses the reform of capital regulation of banks in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007/2009. Whereas the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision seems to go for marginal changes here and there, the paper calls for a thorough overhaul, moving away from risk calibration and raising capital requirements very substantially. [...]


       Posted on May 31st, 2010

Draft Proposals for AIFMD: ECON Committee, ECOFIN, European Commission

The European Commission proposed a Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFMD) in April 2009. The original objectives of introducing the proposal were:

To allow regulators to identify and tackle problems associated with perceived systemic risk emanating from the activities of Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFMs).
To provide more protection to investors in AIFs (Alternative [...]


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