The Regulation of International Finance

This three day course offers an intensive master class in financial regulation. The course covers the institutions of financial regulation at national and international levels, and describes their competencies and remits. The course explains the evolution of the traditional approaches to financial regulation: capital adequacy, lender of last resort and deposit insurance. The course then moves to modern prudential regulation explaining the rationale behind interventions such as the Capital Requirements Directive, Ringfence, Liquidity requirement and so on. The course explains the multiple raison d’être of banks and links these economic insights to the regulations they have generated.

The programme involves lectures complemented by syndicate discussion sessions allowing delegates to connect the material with the issues relevant to their professional requirements. It is targeted at those at all levels who work with the financial markets and who must defend and explain their actions and vulnerability to systemic risk before clients, regulators, auditors and policy makers. 

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Who leads the programme?
John Thanassoulis is Professor of Financial Economics at WBS and an Associate Member of the Oxford-Man Institute at the University of Oxford. In addition to undertaking extensive applied research he advises Government and helps senior executives develop financial knowledge.