- MF Global spoke of 'strong' finances
- EC: No corp gov powers for ESAs
- FSA appoints senior investment bank adviser
- GFS has now closed
- Czechs join UK on fiscal compact sidelines
- Davos stalemate on EU's IMF funds
- Tucker: Resolution regime 'top priority'
- Saudi Arabia increases central bank role
- FSB urges Canada for one securities regulator
- CFTC set for committee to scrutinise HFT
- Fitch downgrades Belgian banks
- What corruption really costs
- UK FSA pushes for Mifid II rethink on OTCs
- Shanghai boosts global financial status
- Canada aligns credit rating rules with EU
- Bowles blasts lack of women at ECB
- Sarkozy to introduce French FTT in August
- Barnier warns on further bonus reforms
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And this year’s award for best finance minister goes to…
Wednesday 21 September 2011 – by Regulation Mutters
Australian treasurer Wayne Swan has won Euromoney magazine’s finance minister of the year award for his steady handling of the country’s economy through the financial crisis. Perhaps Global Financial Strategy should start handing out awards of its own? Most personable regulator, best piece of financial legislation, most useless piece of financial regulation, most random extended metaphor used in a speech…We could go on. Ideas on a postcard please (or just to the email address below). – Send your musings, rumours and links to The Mutterer at [email protected]
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EDITOR’S CHOICE
- Diamond warns against ‘Balkanisation’
- ABI: UK insurers must keep EU links
- EU Parliament site hit by hacktivists
- George Soros: New year, same crisis
- FSB: Swiss regulator needs more teeth
- OCC: Deriv fears are an overreaction
- ‘Major wave’ of Solvency II drafts in May
- IMF paper urges Aus bank capital boost
- BoE: Limit bonuses to boost bank capital
- 2012 vision: Increased regulatory exposure looms
- Barnier offers hope to NYSE/Boerse
- Esma rushes short selling consultation
- Bowles re-elected as Econ chair
- Hoogervorst hints at accounting slowdown
- Asia in the year of the dragon
- Barnier: FTT will not be forced on UK
STRAW POLL
Will markets in 2012 have a tougher time than 2011?