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Green light for pensions The European Commission put out its green paper on pensions this month. Daniel Sage examines the good, the bad and the ugly >>READ MORE

Sovereign health The rapid growth in sovereign wealth funds and issues around transparency have sparked off fears over the safety of investing in the funds but is there any foundation to these fears? Andrew Hickley investigates >>READ MORE

Mixed reactions to Mifid review CESR’s consultation on the Mifid review has been greeted by a mixture of responses from stakeholders with a resounding lack of support for increasing pre-trade transparency in non equity markets >>READ MORE

Commission concerns President Barroso’s European Commission has been in place for almost six months but commentators are not convinced by its leadership or the action it has taken to tackle the sovereign debt crisis >>READ MORE

Japan launches national fiscal strategy to tackle huge national debt Could Japan be the new Greece? Andrew Naylor analyses what the land of the rising sun is doing to reduce its debt burden. >>READ MORE

Book Review - Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and unknowns in the dazzling world of derivatives Satyajit Das takes the reader on a journey through the “dazzling” world of derivatives in an... >>READ MORE

Holding the Euro together As sovereign debt in the European Union threatens to destabilise the euro. Tim Gieles and Helena Walsh look at how the eurozone got here and examine the potential solutions on offer >>READ MORE

Magic bullet or fairytale? Examining the arguments for a financial transaction tax Suggestions for a levy on financial transactions gained global support earlier this year but have since been eclipsed by other alternatives. Daniel Sage examines the options available and whether global consensus is achievable >>READ MORE

Desert fortunes In the first of a series of pieces on Islamic finance, Georgie Rawkins looks at the performance of sukuks during the crisis and what reforms the market needs >>READ MORE

Book Review - The Fearful Rise of Markets: A Short View of Global Bubbles and Synchronised Meltdowns Published by Financial Times/Prentice Hall in May 2010 In the current debate over the financial... >>READ MORE

The Hot Seat: Wolf Klinz In the Hot Seat this month is Wolf Klinz MEP and chair of the European special committee on the financial, economic and social crisis. He talks about the need for Europe to speak as one voice on the global stage and what will be in the forthcoming final report of the committee >>READ MORE

The Big Interview: Todd Groome The Alternative Investment Management Association chairman talks to GFS about the damage the AIFM directive could do to the industry, what is wrong with Brussels and the future of alternative investments >>READ MORE

The Big Interview: Eddy Wymeersch The Committee of European Securities Regulators chairman talks to GFS about Goldman Sachs, dark pools, AIFMD and regulators always being behind the curve >>READ MORE

Book Review - The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis Published by W. W. Norton & Company... >>READ MORE

The Hot Seat: Peter Skinner MEP In the Hot Seat this month is Peter Skinner MEP, rapporteur for Solvency II, who talks about the frustrations of dealing with a complex system of insurance supervision and regulation across the pond >>READ MORE

Consumer protection or just more red tape? Bernadette Mill takes a look at the Obama administration’s proposals for a Consumer Protection Agency and finds opinion is divided over the merits of such an organisation >>READ MORE

Ageing Asia and the challenge for pension systems An ageing population is an issue for many regions in the world but East Asia has particularly big hurdles to overcome in this area. Daniel Sage talks through the regulatory challenges for governments attempting to deal with huge socio-economic changes >>READ MORE

The Big Interview: Sharon Bowles, Arlene McCarthy and Vicky Ford Three of the UK's MEPs who sit on the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee set out their hopes and fears for the financial sector in 2010 and talk about their priorities for the Committee >>READ MORE

Book Review - Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street Too Big to Fail is an account of the credit crisis of 2008 written by Andrew Ross Sorkin, a reporter... >>READ MORE

The Hot Seat: Sebastian Fairhurst In the Hot Seat this month is the European Financial Services Round Table secretary general who voices concerns over the fragmentary approach countries are taking to tackle the financial crisis >>READ MORE

Insuring against ageing populations As dependency ratios increase across Europe due to lower birth rates and increased longevity, a new organisation has been set up to investigate opportunities for a traded market in mortality-related risk >>READ MORE

How to define standardised derivatives The G20 charged policymakers across the world to reform the derivatives market but there are a few knotty issues still to untie >>READ MORE

Tied products set to unravel The European Commission is scrutinising the tying and cross-selling of products in a bid to end anti-competitive practices that reduce customer mobility and price transparency >>READ MORE