The Global Financial Crisis and the Future of Financial Regulation in Hong Kong

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas W. Arner ◽  
Berry Fong Chung Hsu ◽  
A. M. Da Roza ◽  
Francisco A. Da Roza ◽  
Syren Johnstone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Regulation ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

Mobilising resiliency in times of economic hardship: Emerging themes in migrant worker remittance payments

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-167
Author(s):  
Kevin Garlan
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Migrant Worker ◽  
Economic Hardship ◽  
Priority Areas ◽  
Mobile Payments ◽  
Payment Methods ◽  
The Future ◽  
Emerging Themes ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

This paper analyses the nexus of the global financial crisis and the remittance markets of Mexico and India, along with introducing new and emerging payment technologies that will help facilitate the growth of remittances worldwide. Overall resiliency is found in most markets but some are impacted differently by economic hardship. With that we also explore the area of emerging payment methods and how they can help nations weather this economic strife. Mobile payments are highlighted as one of the priority areas for the future of transferring monetary funds, and we assess their ability to further facilitate global remittances.

Macroprudential Policy - Taxonomy and Challenges

2011 ◽  
Vol 216 ◽  
pp. R1-R15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erland W. Nier
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Regulation ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Macroprudential Policy ◽  
Macroprudential Policies ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Governance Arrangements ◽  
Country Specific

There is increasing recognition that prior to the global financial crisis financial regulation had lacked a macroprudential perspective. There has since been a strong effort to make a new macroprudential orientation operational, including through the establishment of new macroprudential authorities or ‘committees’ in a number of jurisdictions. These developments raise — and this paper explores — the following three questions. First, what distinguishes macroprudential policy from microprudential policy and what are its key tasks? Second, what powers should be given to macroprudential authorities and what should be their mandate? Third, how can governance arrangements ensure that macroprudential policies are pursued effectively? While arrangements for macroprudential policy will to some extent be country-specific, we identify three basic challenges in setting up an effective macroprudential policy framework and discuss options to address them.

Transparency Regulation in Financial Markets – Moving into the Surveillance Age?

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-321
Author(s):  
Iris H-Y Chiu
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Financial Regulation ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Regulatory Control ◽  
Legal Reforms ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Risk Oversight

In the wake of the global financial crisis, the trajectory of legal reforms is likely to turn towards more transparency regulation. This article argues that transparency regulation will take on a new role of surveillance as intelligence and data mining expand in the wholesale financial sector, supporting the creation of designated systemic risk oversight regulators.The role of market discipline, which has been acknowledged to be weak leading up to the financial crisis, is likely to be eclipsed by a more technocratic governance in the financial sector. In this article, however, concerns are raised about the expansion of technocratic surveillance and whether financial sector participants would internalise the discipline of regulatory control. Certain endemic features of the financial sector will pose challenges for financial regulation even in the surveillance age.

Bailing out the Wealthy: Responses to the Financial Crisis, Ponzi Neoliberalism, and the City

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Walks
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Economic ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Developed World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

This article seeks to critically examine public policy response to the global financial crisis in the core of the developed world, and to understand the likely implications of this set of policy responses for the future trajectory of urban social crises. Instead of dealing with the internal contradictions of the financial-economic system that characterizes recent capitalism, and that produced the global financial crisis, the governments of the wealthiest countries are actively attempting to ‘solve’ the problem by re-installing a form of capitalism that I refer to as ‘ponzi neoliberalism’. The increasing dominance of ponzi dynamics in this system means it is inherently contradictory, inequitable, wealth-destroying in the aggregate, and unsustainable – I stress in particular the implications for the future form and trajectory of urban social inequality. In this article, I trace the roots of the global financial crisis and outline the parameters of ponzi neoliberalism. I then discuss how nation states are using public policy to resuscitate this system, and in doing so, are reproducing highly contradictory and unsustainable, but self-reinforcing, dynamics (doom-looping) that imperil future social and economic sustainability. I then consider the impact on the geography of the city, and argue that this strategy risks deepening urban social crisis. The longer that ponzi neoliberalism is allowed to continue, the deeper and more problematic will be the crisis, and the more limited will be the state capacity to respond to its contradictions.

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