Governance of the Global Financial System: The Legitimacy of the BCBS 10 years after the 2008 Crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-260
Author(s):  
Jose Gustavo Prieto Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Financial Stability ◽  
International System ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Banking Supervision ◽  
The Public ◽  
Basel Committee ◽  
External Dimension ◽  
Global Financial System

ABSTRACT This article explores the question of legitimacy that underpins Basel III. First, I present a general framework for assessing how legitimacy operates within the global financial system through an analysis of the internal and external dimensions. I next address the internal dimension, exploring the legitimacy of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) as a body that exercises a type of public authority through the generation of norms/standards. I then analyse how the public law standards of transparency and accountability are currently being implemented within the BCBS system. Finally, I examine the external dimension, considering how the legitimacy of the BCBS is related to the international system. In particular, it is argued that because of the direct link between bailouts and human rights violations, the legitimacy of the BCBS is also tied to its role in promoting financial stability in the post-crisis architecture by protecting social rights within states.

Part II The Financial Crisis of 2007–2011, 9 The Initial Response to the Financial Crisis by the EU and Elsewhere

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mccormick Roger ◽  
Stears Chris
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Financial Regulation ◽  
Initial Response ◽  
Banking Supervision ◽  
Basel Committee ◽  
Regulation And Supervision ◽  
European Financial Regulation ◽  
The Eu

This chapter discusses the various laws, regulations, and comparable measures that were passed or proposed in response to the financial crisis in the EU and elsewhere. It covers the responses of the de Larosière Report, G20, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, and the Financial Stability Board. The de Larosière Report, for instance, was commissioned by the President of the European Commission in October 2008 and delivered on 25 February 2009. The report sought ‘to give advice on the future of European financial regulation and supervision’ and has formed the basis of many of the responses to the financial crisis at EU level. The G20 issued a comprehensive communiqué on the crisis at the London ‘Summit’ of 2 April 2009, covering a number of macro-economic and other ‘architectural’ issues.

scholarly journals Global Financial Stability Report, October 2019

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Investors ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Debt Management ◽  
Corporate Debt ◽  
Market Economies ◽  
External Borrowing ◽  
Global Financial System

The October 2019 Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR) identifies the current key vulnerabilities in the global financial system as the rise in corporate debt burdens, increasing holdings of riskier and more illiquid assets by institutional investors, and growing reliance on external borrowing by emerging and frontier market economies. The report proposes that policymakers mitigate these risks through stricter supervisory and macroprudential oversight of firms, strengthened oversight and disclosure for institutional investors, and the implementation of prudent sovereign debt management practices and frameworks for emerging and frontier market economies.

Impact of Crypto-Asset Trade on Financial Stability

2020 ◽  
pp. 210-232
Author(s):  
Nader Trabelsi
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Risk ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Financial System ◽  
System Stability ◽  
Copula Model ◽  
Copula Approach ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Global Financial System

The chapter attempts to test the hypothesis that cryptocurrencies are real independent financial instruments that pose no danger to global financial system stability. For the empirical analysis, the authors use data related to bitcoin and widely traded asset classes. They also utilize the copula approach as well as the CoVaR model. The results show a significant role of crypto-asset market in the stability of global markets. Precisely, they find a dependence between bitcoin and oil prices defined by a normal copula model. The empirical results regarding the systemic risk show that extreme changes in bitcoin prices may have an adverse effect on equity and gold markets. There are positive and significant effects of EUR, JPY, and WTI markets when bitcoin goes down. The authors have also shown that after 2016 the virtual market sudden changes are more likely to raise the whole regular financial system losses, except the energy market. These results are important for policymakers and investors.

Socializing Global Economic Governance: Introducing a Financial Transaction Tax

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 686-703
Author(s):  
Vladimir Nikolaevitch Zuev ◽  
Elena Yakovlevna Ostrovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Financial Stability ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
The Public ◽  
Financial Transaction ◽  
Financial Transaction Tax ◽  
Excessive Speculation ◽  
Transaction Tax ◽  
Global Financial System ◽  
Global Economic Governance

The uncontrolled exponential growth of the financial sector and its rapid globalization led to an equally rapid increase in challenges to the global financial system. The already undertaken measures aimed at improving financial stability are necessary, yet not sustainable enough. The aim of this article is to provide more analytical arguments to favour another solution – the introduction of the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), and to increase the public and academic awareness of the necessity of such a measure. The ongoing reforms do not solve the key problem – the enormous cost to rescue the financial sector, subsidized to a large extent by the taxpayer, and the absence of a fair contribution from the financial sector. FTT as a tool to discourage excessive speculation without hindering other activities seems to be a socially responsible measure working for financial stability at the same time. To efficiently socialize its impact, however, it is critical to define exact patterns of spending of the funds raised by the states.

5. International banking supervision and regulatory architecture

2019 ◽  
pp. 189-230
Author(s):  
Iris H-Y Chiu ◽  
Joanna Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Financial Stability ◽  
Banking Regulation ◽  
International Banking ◽  
Banking Supervision ◽  
Financial Architecture ◽  
Basel Committee ◽  
Regulatory Architecture ◽  
International Financial Architecture ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Creation

This chapter assesses international banking supervision. The solution to the issues in international banking has been the development of procedures that seek to encourage coordination or cooperation between national supervisors. This has been facilitated by the creation of international organisations that have allowed large numbers of countries to discuss, agree, and promote not only supervisory standards, but also regulatory rules. Together, these organisations constitute the international financial architecture that seeks to ensure financial stability by addressing a number of different issues. Two of the key bodies in international banking regulation include the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the Financial Stability Board (FSB). Ultimately, the proliferation of international banking in recent decades, and the need to ensure that banking supervision takes place on a consolidated basis, has led to calls for the creation of a single global regulator.

scholarly journals Budżet roczny - narzędzie stabilizacji czy destabilizacji systemu finansowego JST?

2017 ◽  
pp. 89-103
Author(s):  
Marek Dylewski
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Public ◽  
Annual Budget

The objective of this study is to answer the question should the annual budget continue to be the basic document and the basis for the financial management of local governments, or is it necessary to make changes in the budget system. These doubts arise from the research question: whether the referred annual budget in the current conditions is a tool of stabilization of the financial system of local government units or not? Introduced in the Public Finance Act of 2009, the system of two independent documents, i.a. the annual budget and the long-term financial forecast, without specification of hierarchy, relationship and connection between these documents, does not lead to financial stability of local government from both the point of view of implementation of the budget and the consequences of decisions made by the local government authorities. The lessons that have been learned indicate that the annual budgeting is increasingly leading to destabilization of the financial system of local government units

scholarly journals Basel Compliance and Financial Stability: Evidence from Islamic Banks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Bitar ◽  
Sami Ben Naceur ◽  
Rym Ayadi ◽  
Thomas Walker
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
Z Score ◽  
Capital Ratios ◽  
Conventional Banks ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Global Financial System ◽  
Positive Effect

Abstract We find that compliance with the Basel Core Principles (BCPs) has a strong positive effect on the stability of conventional banks, and a positive but less pronounced effect on the stability of Islamic banks. We also find that the main impact of compliance is an increase in capital ratios, whereas other components of the Z-score are negatively affected. This reflects the desire of banks to be more closely integrated into the global financial system by holding higher capital ratios. The findings also justify the 2015 decision of the Islamic Financial Services Board to publish similar principles for Islamic banks.

scholarly journals Sovereign Adaptive Risk Modeling and Implications on the Eurozone GREXIT Case

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morgan Escalera ◽  
Wayne Tarrant
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Risk Modeling ◽  
Banking Supervision ◽  
Basel Committee ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Original Application ◽  
Systemic Stress ◽  
Of Greece

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) created a list of Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs) with the intention of determining which financial institutions were important enough to the global market that their failure would result in systemic collapse. In this work we create a model that modifies the BCBS's five indicators of size, interconnectedness, cross-jurisdictional activities, complexity, and substitutability and applies these measures of systemic stress to governments. The original application of the model is to track the systemic interdependence of the Eurozone, with particular emphasis on the case of Greece. We anticipate this model can be used in regional fiscal situations beyond the Eurozone.

scholarly journals Implementation of the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision - Experience with Assessments and Implications for Future Work

Policy Papers ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Financial Stability ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Banking Supervision ◽  
Collaborative Relationship ◽  
Basel Committee ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
Future Work

This paper reviews the experience to date in assessing countries’ compliance with the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision (BCP). This review is based on 136 assessments conducted under the FSAP/OFC programs, using the methodology associated with the 1997 version of the BCP. It follows earlier reviews presented to the Board in 2000, 2002, and 2004. The Fund has developed a strong collaborative relationship with the Basel Committee in promoting financial stability, in particular, in its work through the FSAP program in assessing (together with the Word Bank) the quality of countries’ supervisory structures. Experience gained from these assessments are also being reported back to the Committee through the Fund’s participation in Basel working groups, and staff has also been actively involved in the update of the BCP in 2006, with the objective of maintaining the BCP’s relevance as a global standard of good practice.

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