Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128561 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
ADB Economics Working Paper Series No. 443
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila
Abstract: 
The global financial crisis underlined that sound and effective bank regulation is vital to financial stability. Assessments of the global financial crisis invariably point to ineffective finance regulation and supervision as the main reasons for the onset of the crisis and its severity. In particular, lapses in banking regulation contributed significantly to the outbreak. The crisis reflected the failure of regulatory authorities to keep pace with financial innovation. Bank supervision had been weak by any measure. Supervisors did not conduct regular onsite bank inspections or examinations of sufficient depth. They did not properly implement risk-based supervision, and they failed to identify shortcomings in banks' risk-management methods, governance structures, and risk cultures. Meanwhile, offsite surveillance systems rely too heavily on banks' self-reported data to effectively monitor risk. Banking regulation is the primary safeguard against financial instability, but it should be supplemented by macroprudential policies and other new policy instruments now available to regulatory authorities.
Subjects: 
Basel Committee's core principles
finance regulation and supervision
global financial crisis
macroprudential policy
JEL: 
G01
G18
G21
G28
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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