Bankers’ and Public Authorities’ Management of Risks : Proceedings of the Second International Banking Colloquium Held by the Ecole Des Hautes Etudes Commerciales De L’Université De Lausanne

This book examines major risks encountered by the global banking system and reflect on means of mastering them. Their analysis and evaluations have constituted the basis of intensive exchanges at the Second International Banking Colloquium, hosted Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales. Front Matter....Pages i-xxii Deposit Insurance and Banking Efficiency....Pages 1-15 The Banking System and the Indebted Developing Countries: Retrospective and Prospects....Pages 16-27 Multilateral Supervision for the New Financial System....Pages 28-36 International Banks Bracing up to New Competition and Risks....Pages 37-58 Competition and Risks in Financial Services: Lessons from Tokyo....Pages 59-89 A Universal Bank’s Corporate Philosophy: The Challenges and Opportunities Ahead....Pages 90-102 Towards the Twenty-First Century: New Strategies and Perspectives for Banking....Pages 103-120 Banking in Europe after 1992....Pages 121-150 Strategies and Prospects for Japan’s Banking Sector by 2000....Pages 151-169 Guidelines for Economic Rigour, Financial Health and Monetary Order: The Work of a Minister of Finance....Pages 170-174 Public Authorities’ Relations to the Banking Sector....Pages 175-179 Monetary Policy and Banking Stability....Pages 180-186 Future Developments of Japanese International Capital Markets....Pages 187-202 A Banker’s Approach to Risks....Pages 203-206 Responsibilities of a Bank’s Board of Directors — with Special Reference to Financial Innovations....Pages 207-221 Macroeconomic Concerns of Central Bankers....Pages 222-227 The Swiss Supervisory Approach towards International Banking....Pages 228-232 Transnationalization and Global Financial Equilibrium....Pages 233-241 Bankers’ and Regulators’ Management of Risks....Pages 242-259 Back Matter....Pages 260-267 A select number of personalities from various public authories and from the international banking community examine in this book major risks encoutered by the global banking system and reflect on means of mastering them.