Regulators
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For example, the plan would bar
regulators
from initiating a mega-bank’s bankruptcy, leaving it to the discretion of the bank’s own managers.
While bank
regulators
have tools to push banks similarly, their most effective one is the power to initiate a bankruptcy when it is best for the economy.
The simple fact is that government
regulators
can do things that courts cannot.
Yet courts cannot negotiate understandings with foreign
regulators.
American
regulators
can, but only if they can control the timing of the bankruptcy, and otherwise engage in the process.
Government regulators, on the other hand, could do this in advance.
In Kenya,
regulators
have created the conditions needed for an innovative mobile-phone financial-services system, M-PESA, to flourish.
Regulators
and local private institutions can collaborate to create safe and accessible banking and credit instruments.
The Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) – a group (in which I participate) of central bankers, regulators, and finance ministers from more than 80 developing countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East – is sharing knowledge to develop and implement effective policies.
The broader implication is that we need to look beyond greedy bankers and spineless
regulators
(and there were plenty of both) for the root causes of this crisis.
And the problems are not solved with a financial regulatory bill entrusting more powers to those
regulators.
From the new governor of the People’s Bank of China to the cabinet and leading regulators, the new cohort has an opportunity to move China forward by promoting competition, decreasing the power of state enterprises, boosting household consumption, and reducing reliance on exports.
Special interests hold undue sway over official decision-makers in many countries, and
regulators
are always prone to see the world through the eyes of the people whose activities they are supposed to oversee.
It is not enough to proclaim that fracking should be safe if operators are responsible and
regulators
do their job.
If Enria were to resign or – God forbid – be forced out by a scandal in the near future, bank
regulators
everywhere would get the message: “Nice job you have there – it would be a shame if anything happened to it.”
Nokia’s experience also carries an important lesson for regulators, particularly in the European Union.
Regulators
are gradually waking up to the fact that they cannot countenance large expensive-to-trace transaction technologies that facilitate tax evasion and criminal activity.
That is why
regulators
and policymakers should continue to monitor existing and potential risks, such as those arising from credit default swaps on corporate borrowers or complex securitization of bonds.
When the euro was introduced,
regulators
allowed banks to buy unlimited amounts of government bonds without setting aside any equity capital, and the ECB discounted all eurozone government bonds on equal terms.
Climate change represents a market failure; in such circumstances, companies must cooperate with their
regulators
in attempting, for instance, to create mechanisms to generate a representative carbon price.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, US Congressman Barney Frank was surprised to discover that the greatest opposition to American plans came from international
regulators
.
Many scholars of international relations consider the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the international body of
regulators
charged with devising a new set of global standards, as the apogee of international rule-making.
When financial regulations are devised by a coterie of global
regulators
in distant venues, it is bankers and technocrats who gain the upper hand.
Their capital standards should be raised, just as
regulators
have appropriately forced banks to do.
European banks, and even their regulators, were concerned by his enthusiastic advocacy of even tougher standards in Basel 3.5 (or Basel 4, as bankers like to call it), which would, if implemented in the form favored by the US, require further substantial capital increases for Europe’s banks in particular.
Absent any special deal between the EU27 and the United Kingdom, British and EU
regulators
will come together in Basel, not in the European Banking Authority.
This is primarily because
regulators
– despite what they may claim – effectively protect megabanks from market discipline.
Finally, regulators, too, have been rendered docile in the face of the megabanks’ CEOs.
Regulators
have the power to require that boards become more powerful – or at least minimally effective.
Instead,
regulators
stand idly by while bank boards remain self-perpetuating clubs, with membership regarded as little more than so much social plumage.
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