Source: www.breakingviews.com is Europe’s leading financial commentary service
Date: June 2003
By Jonathan Ford
When the world’s richest countries decided 15 years ago to coordinate national banking regulation in response to the upsurge in cross-border lending, their purpose was two-fold. They wanted to prevent a blow-up occurring in a big international bank that could hurt all of them. They also wanted to create a level playing field between banks with tough regulation and those in more easy-going jurisdictions.
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