Essays from the 2010 centenary conference of the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting of American financiers and the US Treasury.

This open access book is the first attempt to elaborate the formalization phase of banking supervision in eight developed countries—USA, Japan, Sweden, German

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) charters, regulates, and supervises all national banks and federal savings associations (collectively, banks

Since banking systems play a crucial role in maintaining the overall health of the economy, the adverse effects of poorly supervised systems may be quite severe

The past two decades have witnessed both tremendous change and tremendous growth in the financial sector in countries across the globe. At the same time, howeve