This work offers a comprehensive examination of the development and structure of the provisions for the control of international financial markets. It explores the background to the major financial crises of the late 20th-century and the nature of the global response.

Financial crises in Asia and elsewhere during the late 1990s generated further anxiety concerning the stability of the international financial market place. The causes of the crises are accordingly examined and the various responses adopted as part of an international financial architecture analysed in detail. This book addresses all the major factors involved in international banking supervision, conglomerate control and financial stability together in a single text. It should prove a useful reference and analytical tool for all those specializing in international banking and financial market control.

Preface. Introduction. Part I: The Basel Committee and Bank Supervision. 1. International Financial Market Instability and the Establishment of the Basel Committee. 2. International Banking Supervision and the Basel Committee Framework. Part II: Financial Conglomerates. 3. Conglomerate Law and International Financial Market Control. 4. Lead Regulation and International Financial Market Supervision. Part III: Financial Stability. 5. International Financial Crisis and the Financial Stability Forum. 6. Observations with Regard to the Continued Development of International Financial Market Supervision and Control. Selected Bibliography. Index.