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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

Balancing Act There is a growing call for balanced budgets to be introduced after the financial and sovereign debt crises. Bernadette Mill investigates the merits of such a system >>READ MORE

ICMA chief says sovereign debt crisis is “most serious phase” of financial crisis so far International Capital Market Association chief executive Martin Scheck says the financial crisis is... >>READ MORE

Monti “pessimistic” about future of the single market Former European Commissioner Mario Monti says the single market is “more unpopular than ever”... >>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

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

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

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

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

Counteracting the domino effect Global regulators are united in their view that the failure of individual financial institutions must never again be allowed to bring the economy to its knees. Edmund Lakin examines the options on the table >>READ MORE

A Greek bail-out may lead to questions over Lisbon treaty The Finance Ministers of the 16 Euro zone countries have pledged to guarantee the debt of any member... >>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

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

Cross-border banking conference seeks crisis management framework A conference, hosted by the European Commission, on Building a Crisis Management Framework for the... >>READ MORE

Barroso warns markets to act on “fact not fiction” after Greek bail-out package is agreed Eurozone leaders have backed a plan to provide financial assistance to Greece. Under the terms... >>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

Wrangling over European supervisory framework rumbles on Can the European Commission and the European Parliament agree on proposals for a new supervisory framework? >>READ MORE