In Phase II of our review of equity market structure regulation, we analyze the five equity markets that represent roughly 90% of global trading volume. First, we present summary statistics on trading volume in each market. Then, we assess the cost performance of these markets for institutional investors.

This paper, authored by Donald P. Kanak, Chairman of Eastspring Investments, proposes a public mechanism for acquiring and replacing coal-fired electricity on an accelerated scale and recycling funds into renewable energy. This mechanism could create millions of jobs, make huge contributions to public health, and arrest climate change.

Author: Donald P. Kanak, Chairman, Eastspring Investments From Vietnam Ministry of Finance’s “Viet Nam Finance Forum 2019: Fiscal and Financial Policy Reforms as Drivers for Renewing the Growth Model and Restructuring the Economy in Vietnam”, pp.517-534. Mr. Kanak is a Senior Fellow of the Program on International Financial Systems.

Our review of equity market regulation focuses on key similarities and differences among regulatory regimes in five jurisdictions, representing roughly 90% of global stock trading. It covers several areas of market structure regulation, including regulation of alternative trading venues, lit and dark trading, and high frequency trading.

This report provides background on the use of cloud computing in the financial sector, reviews existing regulatory and supervisory frameworks for cloud use by financial institutions, and recommends improvements to those frameworks that could reduce obstacles to more widespread cloud adoption by financial institutions.

In connection with a special roundtable event that PIFS, in partnership with Harvard Law School, hosted on November 16, 2018, PIFS prepared a document to provide participants an overview of stress testing regimes in four jurisdictions – the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, and Japan. The overview focused on four major topics. 

Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose reforms that would establish a credible framework of rules to constrain and guide emergency lending by the Federal Reserve and by fiscal authorities during a future financial crisis. Design/methodology/approach – The authors propose a set of five overarching rules, informed by history, empirical evidence […]

Acharya et al define SRISK as a macro-finance measure of systemic risk to furnish “an estimate of the amount of capital that a financial institution would need to raise in order to function normally if we have another financial crisis.” SRISK measures the “expected capital shortfall” of an institution during a financial crisis, defined as […]

Operational risk is fundamentally different from all other risks taken on by a bank. It is embedded in every activity and product of an institution, and in contrast to the conventional financial risks (e.g. market, credit) is harder to measure and model, and not straight forwardly eliminated through simple adjustments like selling off a position. […]

This article for the first time compares the Federal Reserve’s powers as lender of last resort (‘LLR’) and its ability to fight contagion, with its three major peers, the Bank of England (the ‘BOE’), the European Central Bank (the ‘ECB’) and the Bank of Japan (the ‘BOJ’). It concludes that the Federal Reserve (the ‘Fed’) […]