Lessons Not Learned

Lessons Not Learned

10 Steps to Stable Financial Markets

Much has been written and spoken about  the lessons learned from the financial crisis of 2009. In this book, we list the lessons not learned before the financial crisis. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate that the theoretical and intellectual frameworks for regulating financial systems that had been available since at least 2001 could have prevented the systemic failure in the United States that led to the collapse of global credit markets in 2008.

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Much has been written and spoken about  the lessons learned from the financial crisis of 2009. This book deals with the lessons not learned before the financial crisis.

Dr Trimbath demonstrates that an existing framework for regulating financial systems, available since at least 2001, could have prevented the systemic failure in the US that led to the collapse of global credit markets in 2008. Step by step the book guides you through what could have been done to prevent the crisis and what investors can do to protect themselves from the next one, and concludes with a key idea for making financial services businesses stand out from the crowd ensuring future success.

The list of 10 Steps is quite straight-forward and simple.

  1. Have private, independent rating agencies.
  2. Provide some government safety net but not so much that banks are not held accountable (“Too Big to Fail”)
  3. Allow very little government ownership and control of national financial assets.
  4. Allow banks to reduce the volatility of returns by offering a wide-range of services.
  5. Require financial market players to register and be authorized.
  6. Provide information, including setting standards, to enhance market transparency.
  7. Routinely examine financial institutions to ensure that the regulatory code is obeyed.
  8. Enforce the code and discipline transgressors.
  9. Develop policies that keep the regulatory code up to date.
  10. Encourage the creation of specialized financial institutions.

For each step the reader will find: the legislative and regulatory background on the existing rules; a review of academic research on the theory behind each step; and the facts and data connecting each step to the financial crisis of 2008.

"In a time of mind-boggling complexity in financial regulation - too complex, according to Ben Bernanke, for the Federal Reserve System to understand its impact - Lessons Not Learned is a refreshing call to return to a simpler, more basic approach. Susanne Trimbath emphasizes that the failure to implement regulations, a key factor in the crisis of 2008, remains the system's Achilles heel. This book features a refreshing combination of research grounding and pragmatic experience. A must read for taxpayers and their representatives!"

Jerry Caprio - Currently: Williams College, William Brough Professor of Economics and Chair, Center for Development Economics. Formerly (1988-2005): The World Bank, Director, Operations and Policy Department, Financial Sector Vice Presidency

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Acknowledgements

About the author

Contents

Abbreviations

Tables of authorities

Foreword

Introduction

1.     Updated Regulations

1.1.       Lesson

1.2.       Purpose

1.3.       Theory

1.4.       Practice

1.5.       Connection

1.6.       Conclusion

2.     Registration and Authorisation

2.1.       Lesson

2.2.       Purpose

2.3.       Theory

2.4.       Practice

2.5.       Connection

2.6.       Conclusion

3.     Surveillance and Examinations

3.1.       Lesson

3.2.       Purpose

3.3.       Theory

3.4.       Practice

3.5.       Connection

3.6.       Conclusion

4.     Allowable Diversification

4.1.       Lesson

4.2.       Purpose

4.3.       Theory

4.4.       Practice

4.5.       Connection

4.6.       Conclusion

5.     Independent Monitors

5.1.       Lesson

5.2.       Purpose

5.3.       Theory

5.4.       Practice

5.5.       Connection

5.6.       Conclusion

6.     Information and Standards

6.1.       Lesson

6.2.       Purpose

6.3.       Theory

6.4.       Practice

6.5.       Connection

6.6.       Conclusion

7.     Enforcement and Discipline

7.1.       Lesson

7.2.       Purpose

7.3.       Theory

7.4.       Practice

7.5.       Connection

7.6.       Conclusion

8.     Safety with Accountability

8.1.       Lesson

8.2.       Purpose

8.3.       Theory

8.4.       Practice

8.5.       Connection

8.6.       Conclusion

9.     Private Ownership

9.1.       Lesson

9.2.       Purpose

9.3.       Theory

9.4.       Practice

9.5.       Connection

9.6.       Conclusion

10.       Specialization

10.1.         Lesson

10.2.         Purpose

10.3.         Theory

10.4.         Practice

10.5.         Connection

10.6.         Conclusion

11.       Conclusion

11.1.         Finance is Everywhere

11.2.         No single cause, no single solution

11.3.         Moving Beyond Finance and Economics

11.4.         Where We Are Now

11.5.         Where we could be

11.6.         Epilogue to Individual Investors

Appendices

Appendix 1: Note on the Mathematics of Derivatives

Appendix 2: SROs, Born of the Paperwork Crisis

Appendix 3: Structured Finance

Appendix 4: Who Regulates Banks

Appendix 5: DFA Cross-Reference and Implementation Trackers

Appendix 6: A Collection of Lessons

References

Index

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