Charles Goodhart CBE, FBA is Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance and a member of the Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics and Political Science, having previously served as the group's Deputy Director from 1987 to 2005. From 1985 until his retirement in 2002, he was the Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and Finance at the LSE. Before moving into academia he worked at the Bank of England for seventeen years as a monetary advisor, becoming a chief advisor in 1980.
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Foreword Nout Wellink
Background and acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. The antecedents of the BCBS
3. Modus operandi: chairmen, secretariat, members, the structure of meetings
4. The Concordat
5. External and foreign exchange issues
6. Capital adequacy and the Basel Accord of 1988
7. The Market Risk Amendment
8. The core principles of banking supervision
9. Liquidity
10. Off balance sheet exposures and derivatives
11. Other topics addressed by the BCBS
12. The relationship of the BCBS with banks and other banking regulators
13. Relationships with other non-bank oversight and supervisory bodies
14. The legal position of the BCBS
15. The international relations of the BCBS
16. BCBS and the social sciences
17. Epilogue
Index.
