A detailed assessment of Israel’s compliance with the Basel Core Principles for effective banking supervision is … presented. The Bachar reform that has been started in mid-2005 forced banks to divest most noncommercial banking activities …, such as mutual funds, insurance, pension, and provident funds; the banks today focus on traditional banking business. As a …

Switzerland. Switzerland has a relatively unique banking sector, with a high market concentration by the two largest domestic … Principles with two exceptions where the Swiss Federal Banking Commission (SFBC) is deemed largely compliant. The two exception … areas are budgetary independence and banking activities not subject to SFBC supervision. …

and financial policy transparency, banking supervision, securities regulation, insurance regulation, corporate governance …

This paper assesses compliance of the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision in Spain. Significant …

Effective Banking Supervision. The Italian banking system seems to exhibit a high degree of resilience to possible macroeconomic …

(NBRB) fulfills its responsibilities of authorization, supervision, and regulation of banking institution operations through …This Detailed Assessment of Compliance—Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision on the Republic of … regulation and supervision of the financial sector has undergone significant reform. The National Bank of the Republic of Belarus …

supervision is presented. Regulation and supervision of China’s banking system has made impressive progress in the past few …A detailed assessment report on the observance of China’s compliance of Basel Core Principles for effective banking … years, led by an activist, forward-looking regulator, the China Banking Regulatory Commission, with a clear safety and …

effectiveness of Cyprus’s banking regulatory and supervisory framework in place, and the resulting high degree of compliance with … the Basel Core Principles. Regulation has to be defined to set a frame in which insurance undertakings can operate. Clear …

The increased presence of foreign banks in a country's domestic banking system necessitates the development of … challenges which foreign banks bring to emerging market banking supervisors are also discussed. The paper also provides surveys …