Ensuring adequate understanding becomes doubly difficult when regulatory responsibilities and critical legislation change each year. How Countries Supervise their Banks, Insurers and Securities Markets 2007 offers a solution to this dilemma. It shows how financial institutions are supervised in all 196 jurisdictions. This completely updated edition offers readers: Expanded country profiles giving an overview of regulation in the two dozen most important financial centres; Named anti-money-laundering contacts within regulatory agencies; A unique guide to the international regulatory standard-setters. Benefits for users Find out fast who regulates which firms in over 190 jurisdictions: for each of the 190+ jurisdictions the directory profiles the 500+ agencies responsible for regulating banks, insurance companies and securities firms; Identify which types of firms are licensed: in addition, the directory lists in detail which kinds of firms are licensed by the ï¤ different regulatory agencies; Find information on individual firms: Increasingly, regulatory authorities publish a register of regulated firms. The 2007 edition includes details of how to access these registers, allowing you to find information about authorised institutions in minutes not hours; Make contact with key individuals: the 2007 edition lists contact details for over 2,200 senior regulatory staff around the world, enabling you to quickly identify and make contact with the relevant individuals in any one of hundreds of agencies; Understand quickly legal mandates and responsibilities; the powers, responsibilities and functions of each agency are profiled concisely to allow you to quickly understand their work; Keep up-to-date with important changes:because our researchers contact all of the profiled agencies every year. You will find in the 2007 edition up-to-date information about important regulatory changes all around the world.� All available at your fingertips in a single volume.
