Bloomberg View A few months ago, the Bank for International Settlements, which acts as a bank for the world’s central banks, warned in its annual...

FRANKFURT, Germany — Governments, banks and households struggling with too much debt are dragging down the world's economy and more needs to be ...

Canada's once-proud government programs are being subjected to radical budget cuts -- cuts that could have been avoided if the government had not quit borrowing from its own central bank in the 1970s.

Global banking reform isn’t coming fast enough for the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. On Wednesday, the Basel Committee, a Swiss-based o...

BASEL, Switzerland (Sakari Suoninen) - Global interest rates must rise to avoid high inflation becoming entrenched, the Bank for International Set...

If the big banks that brought you the current credit crisis can already meet the new requirements, what exactly does Basel III achieve, beyond shaking down their smaller competitors?

The sovereign debt crisis would seem to create worry enough for European banks, but there is another gathering threat that has not garnered as much no...

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The recent crisis was a failure of risk management -- a diagnosis widely shared among the members of the IIF. But we are also starting the next crisis: the public finance crisis in Europe, the United States and Japan.

Why was Bear Stearns saved from bankruptcy but Lehman Brothers was not? How could the decision makers not realize the dire consequences of letting Lehman go down?

Political colonialism is now a thing of the past, but under the new Financial Stability Board guidelines, nations can still be held in feudalistic subservience to foreign masters.