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A world obsessed with Best Practices may calcify its structure and break with any small wind.

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Sir, Nicholas Dorn in his letter “Drive for global banking conformity increases systemic risk” of September 18, refers to your leader article, “Waning co-operation will make the next financial crisis worse”, and MEP Molly Scott Cato’s letter “Global finance can work if rulemakers co-operate”, September 14. Dorn writes:
“Converging international financial regulation encourages similar business models and greater homogeneity of finance, raising systemic risk”.
“No one knows where the next crisis is going to come from. The more useful question is how the propagation of crises through the system can be minimised”
“The plain implication is the need for greater variation in finance, so that such risks as do arise cannot so easily ripple through the global ensemble. What is desperately needed, therefore, is not bland global conformity but more variation between important regulatory regimes.”
I could not agree more. In April 2003, as an Executive Director of the World Bank, I made the following formal statements at the Board, which relate directly to those fundamental points Dorn raises.
“A mixture of thousand solutions, many of them inadequate, may lead to a flexible world that can bend with the storms. A world obsessed with Best Practices may calcify its structure and break with any small wind.”
“Nowadays, when information is just too voluminous and fast to handle, market or authorities have decided to delegate the evaluation of it into the hands of much fewer players such as the credit rating agencies. This will, almost by definition, introduce systemic risks in the market and we are already able to discern some of the victims, although they are just the tip of an iceberg.”
What else can I say? Well perhaps that that statement also included:
“Basel dictates norms for the banking industry that might be of extreme importance for the world’s economic development. In Basel’s drive to impose more supervision and reduce vulnerabilities, there is a clear need for an external observer of stature to assure that there is an adequate equilibrium between risk-avoidance and the risk-taking needed to sustain growth”
Sadly Sir, as I have written to you umpteenth times, a different purpose for banks than just being a safe place where to stash away cash (and implicit to help fund the sovereign) is nowhere to be found in all the voluminous official writings about bank regulation.
Was I able to get my message thru? No! I guess the attraction of that with risk weighted capital requirements the regulators would be able to make our banks safer, was such that not even FT was (is) able to resist the songs of Basel Committee’s sirens. 
@PerKurowski


Source: http://teawithft.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-world-obsessed-with-best-practices.html



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