‘Reforming Global Finance’
News, opinion, proposals for reforming finance at global and national levels. Tracks new laws to curb speculative finance, transaction taxes and how financiers caused the collapse of 2008-9. News on monetary-systems reform of the Federal Reserve, IMF, World Bank, BIS and central banks.
Relates to: SRI, Transforming Finance, Beyond GDP, Community Development Solutions, Reports You Need, EthicalMarkets.tv
COMMISSION URGED TO BREAK STRANGLEHOLD OF FINANCIAL SECTOR
ALLIANCE FOR LOBBYING TRANSPARENCY AND ETHICS REGULATION (ALTER-EU) PRESS RELEASE For immediate release: Thursday November 5, 2009 ***** EUROPEAN COMMISSION URGED TO BREAK STRANGLEHOLD OF FINANCIAL SECTOR ***** The new ALTER-EU report 'A captive Commission - the role of the financial industry in shaping EU regulation' can be found [...]
Warren Buffett And The G20
Posted: 07 Nov 2009 03:53 AM PST The G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank governors are meeting today in St. Andrews, talking about the data they will need to look at in order to monitor each other’s economic performance and sustain growth (seriously). (more…)
Systemic Regulation, Prudential Matters, Resolution Authority and Securitization
Statement of Jane D’Arista Representing Americans for Financial Reform Before the Committee on Financial Services Hearing on “Systemic Regulation, Prudential Matters, Resolution Authority and Securitization” October 29, 2009 Chairman Frank, Ranking Member Bachus and Members of the Committee, it is a privilege to appear before you to [...]
Green Budget News
Posted November 4, 2009 Enclosed you will find GreenBudgetNews No. 24 with many interesting articles about the development of Green Budget Reform worldwide, in the European Union and in Germany: Click here for the newsletter (PDF). Moreover you will find informations about recent GBG-studies and interesting events. More information about GBG [...]
Curbing Financial Trading By Hazel Henderson
Posted November 4, 2009 "Other News" is a personal initiative seeking to provide information that should be in the media but is not, because of commercial criteria. It welcomes contributions from everybody. Work areas include information on global issues, north-south relations, governance of globalization. The "Other News" motto is a phrase which [...]
Naked Capitalism
We introduce Naked Capitalism to our readers, one of the best of the insider blogs now exposing corruption on Wall Street and their revolving door with Congress. - Editor Links 11/1/09 “How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash” (AIG as Bagholder Watch) Guest Post: Chairman of the Department of Economics at George Mason [...]
Ethics in Finance Robin Cosgrove Prize
Posted: 28 Oct 2009 08:03 PM PDT Geneva, 22nd October 2009: Today the “Ethics in Finance Robin Cosgrove Prize” will be awarded to seven young people who submitted winning papers on INNOVATIVE IDEAS FOR ETHICS IN FINANCE. The financial crisis was largely triggered when trust in financial markets was destroyed by lack of transparency and [...]
The Land Ethic: How to Address Inequality and Financial Instability
Published on Policy Innovations By Alanna Hartzok October 20, 2009 The global financial crisis has demonstrated a deep systemic failure of the prevailing economic paradigm. So far, efforts to remedy the situation have failed to address the root causes of the meltdown and are digging the American people deeper into the hole of public debt. [...]
Financial Services Committee and Treasury Department Release Draft Legislation to Address Systemic Risk, “Too Big to Fail” Institutions
Posted October 28, 2009 Washington, DC – Today, the House Financial Services Committee and the Treasury Department released draft legislation to address the issue of systemic risk and “too big to fail” financial institutions. The draft bill will: (more…)
Origins of the Financial crisis and requirements for reform
Posted October 26, 2009 At the July 2008 Reserve Bank of Australia conference on the current ?nancial turmoil the paper by Adrian Blundell- Wignall and Paul Atkinson explained the current ?nancial crisis as being caused at two levels: by global macro liquidity policies and by a very poor framework for incentives of ?nancial sector agents, [...]
More invaluable advice from Robert A. G. Monks, analyzing the new breed of dysfunctional “drone corporations.” He calls out the most influential trustees of pension funds, endowments, and foundations by name to take responsibility. A must read by asset managers and trustees worldwide.