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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

Clearing a path through the derivatives maze It has been a long time in coming but finally the European Commission has outlined its next steps in how it will be regulating the OTC derivative markets. Edmund Lakin takes a look at the latest consultation document >>READ MORE

The Big Interview: Martin Scheck The International Capital Market Association chief executive talks to GFS about the sovereign debt crisis, the lack of harmonisation both in Europe and globally and what is most concerning ICMA members at present >>READ MORE

Brazil tightens corporate governance to mirror EU rules The Brazilian Stock Exchange and Commodities and Futures Exchange in São Paulo has proposed tighter... >>READ MORE

UCITS - Collective fine-tuning Ucits IV has not yet been implemented, but work on Ucits V has already been flagged as a priority for the European Commission in 2011. Theo Lartey takes a look at what the updated directive may contain >>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

Increased transparency could damage non-equity markets Increased pre and post-trade transparency may adversely affect liquidity in non-equity markets,... >>READ MORE

US financial stability bill divides opinion The US Senate passed the Financial Stability Bill on May 21, bringing sweeping reform of banking... >>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: 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

Interoperability: Is it worth the effort? EuroCCP’s CEO Diana Chan says two key provisions are needed to deliver the benefits of interoperability between central counterparties >>READ MORE

Costs of current regulatory reforms could reach $200bn in first year Regulatory reform in US markets is heading in the right direction but the current package of reforms... >>READ MORE

Disagreement over US derivatives bill rumbles on after Volcker letter White House economic adviser and former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker has written to Senate... >>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

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

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

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