This backgrounder on the financial transaction tax, by Max Lawson, is intended to be a general update for campaigners around the world keen to see what progress can be made on achieving a tax on financial transactions.
This backgrounder on the financial transaction tax, by Max Lawson, is intended to be a general update for campaigners around the world keen to see what progress can be made on achieving a tax on financial transactions.
One group of financiers seems to be doing nicely out of the global recession: the International Monetary Fund and other International Financial Institutions (IFIs) are enjoying a return to relevance and lining up for increased funding. But the issues at stake here go beyond the IFIs’ own agendas.
The Institute of International Finance, a global association of financial services firms with over 370 members across the world, published a report spelling out their proposals for global financial regulation.
Statement on the financial crisis and the necessary policy responses.
The Financial Markets Group are hosting the London Financial Regulation Conference, a two-day conference. The Conference will include the key authors of both monographs, and several other leading experts, to lead discussions on continuing key issues, such as liquidity, quantitative easing, and remuneration.
Panel debate and Q&A on global financial regulation and what it means for developing countries.
The G20’s London communiqué of 2 April promised to repair the global economy by taking action in major areas such as restoring growth, jobs, confidence and lending, strengthening financial regulation, funding and reforming the international financial institutions (IFIs), rejecting protectionism and pursuing recovery through a green economy.