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What a banking union means for Europe
Essay by Philip Whyte, 05 December 2012
Britain, Europe and the City of London: Can the triangle be managed?
Essay by Philip Whyte, 20 July 2012
Britain, the City and the EU: A triangle of suspicion
Insight by Philip Whyte, 11 October 2011

Britain, the City and the EU: A triangle of suspicion

Insight by Philip Whyte, 11 October 2011

Britain has abandoned 'light touch' regulation and signed up to greater supervisory powers at EU level. Yet the Channel looks as wide as ever.
Financial regulation: Britain the perennial outlier?

Insight by Philip Whyte, 20 June 2011

Back in 2007, when the Labour government had abolished the business cycle and the City of London was booming, British policy-makers liked to vaunt the merits of ‘light touch’ regulation.
Financial regulation: Will British euroscepticism collide with European populism?

Insight by Philip Whyte, 21 May 2011

When EU finance ministers met in Brussels on 18 May, many observers expected sparks to fly. The reason? This was the first EU meeting that Britain’s newly-elected government would attend.
The EU's new supervisory architecture - evolution or revolution?

Bulletin article by Philip Whyte, 01 October 2010

In early September EU finance ministers approved the Commission's proposals for reforming the EU's supervisory architecture for financial services.
Le G20 a manqué une chance de réformer la finance

Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
La Tribune, 24 April 2010

Vendredi après-midi, ministres des Finances et banquiers centraux des pays riches et émergents du G20 se sont réunis à Washington pour discuter des projets de régulation du secteur financier.
How to restore financial stability

Report by Philip Whyte, 12 January 2010

In 2008, the global financial system came close to collapse. Ever since, policy-makers have been busy overhauling the way it is regulated and supervised. Will this flurry of activity produce a more stable financial system – and if it does, at what cost?
Anglo-Saxons and hedge funds: Culprits or scapegoats?

Insight by Philip Whyte, 07 August 2009

Disasters often provoke unseemly bouts of finger-pointing. This has certainly been true of the global financial crisis. In the Anglo-Saxon world, libertarians have blamed it on governments, and governments on ‘bankers’.
Economic liberalism in retreat

Opinion piece by Simon Tilford
The New York Times, 16 July 2009

Is the brief flowering of economic liberalism in Europe over? It is too soon to read the last rites, but the prognosis is not good.The financial crisis, the subsequent discrediting of the Anglo-Saxon economies and the passing of the most economically liberal European Commission there has ever been have put liberal economic thinking on the defensive.

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