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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

Squaring the circle of financial intermediation Czech National Bank vice-governor Mojmír Hampl, who is also a member of the European Union’s economic and financial committee, is concerned by the perfectionists who are out in force on the regulation front >>READ MORE

The flash crash On 6 May, the Dow Jones index had its biggest one-day drop in history. Luke Nelson takes a look at the causes and what is being done to prevent it from happening again >>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

Caught short Germany’s decision to ban naked short selling has done it no favours on the global stage and the government was widely criticised for acting unilaterally. Bernadette Mill examines the implications >>READ MORE

Leading commentators call for overhaul of G20 process The chair of the European Committee on the Financial Crisis and the chairman of the Alternative... >>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

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

Passing of Healthcare Bill means Financial Reform takes poll position in Obama’s priorities Financial regulatory reform will be back in poll position on the US legislative agenda now that... >>READ MORE

A year in the life of the Financial Stability Board As the Financial Stability Board approaches its first anniversary, secretary general Svein Andresen talks to GFS about what it has achieved and the mountain of work still to be done >>READ MORE