The Evolving Role of Regulators in the Banking Industry The Search for a New Global Financial Architecture Systemic Risk, Bank Supervision and Follow-the-Sun Overdraft Structuring the Regulatory Environment: Examples from the United States Changes in Bank Legislation: Examples from Germany Hands-on Experience with Bank Supervision The Integration of Supervisory Duties by the Financial Services Authority: an Example from Britain Cross-Border Supervision of Banks, Non-Banks and Internet Commerce Rigorous Approaches to the Management of Financial Risk Factors Model Risk and the Control of Eigenmodels by the Supervisors Rethinking and Revamping the 1998 Capital Accord Central Banks, Commercial Banks and Repurchase Agreements Redefining Reporting Requirements and Opening New Frontiers Regulators, and the Wave of Mergers in Banking Debt Management Strategies and the Restructure of Assets and Liabilities by Sovereigns

Written by a leading financial analyst, this new book provides a detailed overview of the new regulatory environment facing the financial industry. Whilst the 1980s and early 1990s focused on deregulation within the financial sector, today a key point of interest has become re-regulation - and in a global setting.

Dimitris N. Chorafas served on the faculty of the Catholic University of America and as Visiting Professor at Washington State University, George Washington University, University of Vermont, University of Florida, and Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, as well as the University of Alberta, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Ecole d'Etudes Industrielles de l'Université de Genève, Ecole Polytechnic Fédérale de Lausanne, Polish Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences. More than 8,000 banking, industrial and government executives participated in his seminars in the United States, England, Germany, Italy, other European countries, Asia and Latin America. Chorafas is the author of 160 books, translated into several languages world-wide.