Banking supervision and the politics of verification: the 2014 stress test in the European Banking Union

The statistical methodology known in financial terminology as ‘stress testing’ was used by the European Central Bank in 2014 in order to assess the solidity of the banks in the eurozone. This audit process is analysed here as a problem of truth production or ‘veridiction’ in the sense developed by Michel Foucault in his 1978–1979 lectures at the Collège de France. In order to prove effective, the stress test had to deliver knowledge on banks, objectified and actionable at once, but also controlled by the idea of avoiding ‘market panic’. This epistemological dilemma is at the core of the politics of verification, which consists in the distribution of restraint and responsibility between non-risky and risky banks. This qualitative investigation is focused on France and is based on interviews with relevant policy actors and documentary analysis.     

国际金融危机下的菲律宾银行业

菲律宾银行业在经历国际金融危机过程中,虽然盈利能力有所下降,但基本运行状况良好,经营风险程度有所改善。这得益于菲律宾政府一系列积极有效的应对危机的措施。尽管如此,菲律宾银行业整体仍存在监管滞后及资产管理水平比较落后等亟待解决的问题。     

Banking in the cloud: Part 2 – regulation of cloud as ‘outsourcing’

This paper looks at EU banks' use of public cloud computing services. It is based primarily on anonymised interviews with banks, cloud providers, advisers, and financial services regulators. The findings are presented in three parts. Part 1 explored the extent to which banks operating in the EU, including global banks, use public cloud computing services.Part 2 of this paper covers the main legal and regulatory issues that may affect banks' use of cloud services. It sets out how EU banking regulators have approached banks' use of cloud services and considers regulators' lack of cloud computing knowledge. The paper further considers how the regulation of outsourcing applies to banks' use of cloud services, including whether cloud computing constitutes “outsourcing”. It analyses the contentious issue of contractual audit rights for regulators as well as legal and practical issues around risk assessments, security, business continuity, concentration risk, bank resolution, and banking secrecy laws.Part 3 looks at the key contractual issues that arise between banks and cloud service providers, including data protection requirements, termination, service changes, and liability.All three parts of the paper can be accessed via Computer Law and Security Review's page on ScienceDirect at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02673649?sdc=2. The full list of sources is available via the same link and will be printed alongside the third part of the article.     

The rank,stock, order and epidemic effects of technology adoption: an empirical study of bounce protection programs

Karshenas and Stoneman (RAND J Econ 24(4):503–528, 1993) gathered four theories of technology adoption: the rank, stock, order and epidemic effects. Tests of these four effects reveal support for rank and epidemic but not the stock or order effects. Since then numerous other studies have tried to find evidence in support of the stock and order effects. But evidence has been elusive, until now. Further, a survey by Frame and White (J Econ Lit 42:116–144, 2004) concludes that much more work is needed into financial innovation. This paper accomplishes three goals: (1) evidence is found to support certain technology adoption theories (the order effects and possibly the stock effects), (2) since the technology under consideration is a financial innovation called bounce protection, the paper answers Frame and White’s call for papers, and (3) refinements are made to the Karshenas and Stoneman methodology and found to be superior to the original empirical model.

城市商业银行公司治理

完善城市商业银行公司治理,应在分析缺陷的基础上,优化股权结构,强化董事会建设,加强公司治理监管,强化激励约束机制,完善信息披露。     

论开放银行数据共享中的信息披露义务

开放银行模式下,数据共享过程中的信息披露存在对象和内容两方面的特殊性,个人客户的知情权保障面临信息不对称与信息过载的双重困境。我国有关开放银行的规范将视线聚焦于技术标准,涉及信息披露之核心操作环节的规则处于空白状态。在我国,实践中,各家银行并没有足够的动力履行信息披露义务,有必要对开放银行数据共享中的信息披露义务进行系统构建,这需要结合银行和第三方机构在数据共享不同阶段承担的不同角色,对信息披露义务的具体内容及形式予以明确,并从民事责任、行政责任、刑事责任的角度对各类违反信息披露义务的行为分别加以规制。     

我国私人银行业务的法律风险及防范

私人银行业务是与商业银行传统业务并驾齐驱的主要银行业务之一.但由于我国金融立法还处于起步阶段,私人银行业务仍处于萌芽状态,私人银行业务的发展面临着政策模糊、法律真空和监管缺位的巨大风险和安全隐患.在借鉴国外相关经验和法律法规的基础上,加快制定和完善我国私人银行业务的相关法律法规,积极引导并规范私人银行市场发展,是我国私...     

银监会法律性质研究

2003年中国银监会的成立是我国金融监管机制步向专业化与法治化的一个重要举措。但银监会＂国务院直属正部级事业单位＂的现有定位广受诟病。＂事业单位＂的定性使国务院组成部门、直属机构和事业单位的界限变得模糊不清;＂正部级＂的冠名使得行政级别的设置进一步强化;＂国务院直属＂的设置模式无法保证银监会监管的独立性。从银监会的专业性、独立性、权力混合性及其履行职责的性质来看,其应当定性为国家经济调制机关。     

Competition and Coordination in Bank Regulation: The Financial Crisis of 2007–09

The ability of businesses to shift regulatory jurisdictions has long raised questions about whether this generates a regulatory race to the bottom (RTB). Prior to the Financial Crisis of 2007–09, the structure of U.S. federal bank regulation raised similar questions, as banks could choose their regulator and regulators received fees for assessing banks. I investigate this question, through the theoretical lenses of bureaucratic structure, regulatory capture and bureaucratic reputation. Relying on quantitative and qualitative data, I find that the initial regulatory structure did induce a regulatory RTB, but once the Financial Crisis had begun, reputational fears on the part of federal agencies reversed the race, as the regulators strengthened standards and brought more enforcement actions. The paper ultimately shows that multiple theories help to explain what is going on with regulatory RTBs.     

论银监会成立后我国银行业监管的完善

银监会的成立,标志着中国形成了银行业、证券业和保险业分业经营、分业监管的体制。银监会成立后的两年多来,银监会的监管工作确实取得了明显的成效。但我国银行业监管仍存在一些问题,必须进一步加以完善。具体来说,应转变银行监管理念、监管方式和监管目标模式;提高银行监管主体素质,建立对监管者的监督制约机制;完善银行监管的法律、法规、规章及相应的制度体系。