The International Handbook on Financial Reform

Maximilian J. B. Hall9781840640632, 1840640634

This work provides country studies of the latest developments in financial reform in a selection of both developed and developing countries from Western Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Australia. Contributors find that programs of reform have embraced elements such as central bank reform, consolidation, demutualization, supervisory reform, and measures such as the introduction of explicit deposit insurance schemes. Hall teaches banking and financial regulation at Loughborough University, UK.