ILAQUIT, Canada – Reports of the death of the Group of Seven, thought by some to be yet another casualty of the global financial crisis, have proved exaggerated. But the G7 grouping of the world’s richest nations has possibly suffered a fate worse than death in diplomatic terms by relegating itself to “non-communiqué-issuing” status.

MADRID – Regulators are launching a review of existing standards for financial market infrastructures such as payment systems, securities settlement systems and central counterparties with the aim of issuing a draft paper for com

WASHINGTON - America’s state-based insurance supervisors rounded in late January on lawmakers seeking to use the collapse of American International Group (AIG), once the world’s largest insurer, as an argument for federal regulation.

WASHINGTON - Pay arrangements at failed US investment banks Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, two of the most spectacular casualties of the global financial crisis, highlight the extent to which executives had an incentive to improve short-term results at the risk of an implosion later on, research led by Harvard Law School professor Lucian Bebchuk shows.*

DAVOS, Switzerland - The world’s top accountants are warning that plans by the US to move to global accounting standards are vulnerable to major delays and the process could get much politicised.

America’s plans to restrict speculation put banks on the spot. Even regulators have doubts about imposing limits

Banker pay remains in the spotlight - a toxic political issue and a knotty problem for regulators. Little sign of real change

Banking supervisors trying to assess bank pay policies face a near-term practical challenge in that as firms take steps now to reform their practices, actual changes will be completed over time, according to the Basel Committee of global banking regulators.

Britain’s Adair Turner reviews accounting dilemmas,urging a limit to the use of fair value and proposing a solution to ‘expected loss’ quandary. Regulators, accountants, industry divided By David Keefe

As the flow of new rules gathers pace, splits are emerging among bankers and G20. Rising concern over coordination breakdowns By Melvyn Westlake