James Kemp, Managing Director of GFMA's Global FX Division provides a regulatory outlook for 2012 in an interview with FX Week.

Most banks in Asia-Pacific are unlikely to face significant difficulty complying with Basel III's higher capitalization requirements in 2013, according to a recent Standard & Poor's report. But some may struggle more than others. In this podcast, Standard & Poor's Managing Director Naoko Nemoto explains why most Asia-Pacific banks are likely to meet the requirements while some may have difficulty.

French banks continue to post adequate results and benefit from sound asset quality. However, they will continue to operate in a constraining playing field featuring low domestic economic growth, uncertain capital markets, and stricter regulations. The tighter regulatory regime should prompt banks to bolster their capital. In this CreditMatters TV video, Standard & Poor's Director Elisabeth Grandin takes an in-depth look at the situation.

Simon Johnson, a former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund and author of 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown, says the recently passed Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act does little to prevent the biggest financial risk of our time -- banks that are becoming "too big to save," either because potential losses could overwhelm government resources, or the public will refuse to sanction another large bailout.

Richard Grossman of Wesleyan University talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about his new book ‘Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800'. Among other things, they discuss the problems of striking a balance between a dynamic banking system and a stable banking system. The interview was recorded at a conference on ‘Lessons from the Great Depression for the Making of Economic Policy' in London in April 2010.

The consequences of banks' risk taking behaviour will be felt by the public finances of many countries for at least another generation. Risk taking behaviour is the lifeblood of financial markets. How can, and should, it be managed? Julia Black is professor of law at LSE. Charles Goodhart is professor emeritus of banking and finance at LSE. 

Axel Weber, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about the need to rebalance between risk-taking and regulation in financial markets. They discuss the opportunity for central bankers and other G20 players to design and implement new regulation, and the likely future size of the financial sector in the overall economy. The interview was recorded at the Global Economic Symposium in Schleswig-Holstein in September 2009.

Primer episodio de la nueva serie de podcast sobre el sector bancario producidos por IBM. Lee Hodgkinson, CEO de SWX Europe, charla sobre cómo el mercado actual ha afectado a sus propias iniciativas estratégicas;  el cambiante papel de la tecnología dentro del entorno comercial; el cambio en el reparto de liquidez del sector bancario; el impacto de "dark pools" y trading algorítmico; cómo la gestión de riesgos está evolucionando, y el siempre presente y cambiante mundo regulatorio.