Infrastructure/Foreign exchange

Jospin raises the spectre of Tobin

French prime minister Lionel Jospin has resurrected the debate over the Tobin tax – a tax on international capital flows designed to discourage short-term currency speculation – by publicly supporting the concept in an address to the French nation.

The new Accord delayed

Implementation of Basel II has been delayed to 2005, and regulators are revising key elements of their proposals for a new Accord on bank capital.

The FSA’s hardliner

Oliver Page, of the UK’s FSA and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, says regulators should stay tough on credit and operational risk.

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