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Are global capital rules possible?
By Howard Davies - Apr 01,2024
What’s in a name? The final proposals for bank-capital rules were dubbed Basel 3.1, as if to suggest a minor tidying-up exercise — just a few grace notes added to a melody composed long ago.
A Brexit post-mortem for the city
By Howard Davies - May 18,2021
LONDON — Nearly five years after the Brexit referendum, and in the five months since Brexit itself, the debate about the future of the City, the financial centre of London, has remained a dialogue of the deaf.
Will COVID-19 kill cash?
By Howard Davies - Jul 27,2020
LONDON — Four years ago, Kenneth Rogoff, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, made a powerful case for phasing out paper money.
Are independent central banks passé?
By Howard Davies - Feb 28,2020
 LONDON — US President Donald Trump’s decision to nominate economist Judy Shelton for one of the vacant positions on the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) has put the future of central bank independence back on the agenda.
Is post-Brexit London really doomed?
By Howard Davies - Oct 07,2019
EDINBURGH — It is now well over three years since the United Kingdom voted, by a narrow but significant margin, to leave the EU. Yet, we still have no idea what kind of economic relationship the UK will have with the 27 countries it leaves behind.
The Bard and the bank regulators
By Howard Davies - Jun 29,2019
LONDON — Banking supervision teams at the Bank of England “now receive the equivalent of twice the entire works of Shakespeare of reading each week.” So says Huw van Steenis, the author of a new report, “Future of Finance”, commissioned by the bank’s outgoing governor, Mark Carne


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