Financial Supervision in the 21st Century

• Good Supervision and its Limits in the Post-Lehman Era.- Managing the Quality of Financial Supervision.- The Case for Analytical Supervision - A Swedish Perspective.- Unintended Consequences of Supervision.- Influence and Incentives in Financial Institution Supervision.- Developments in Supervisory Enforcement.- Supervising in Good Times and Bad: Public Opinion and Consistency of Supervisory Approach.- Board Evaluations.- External and Internal Supervision: How to Make it Work?.- DNB Supervision of Conduct and Culture.- How Can Principles-based Regulation Contribute to Good Supervision?.- Experiences with the Dutch Twin Peaks Model: Lessons for Europe.- Aligning Macro- and Microprudential Supervision.- Supervision: Looking Ahead to the Next Decade.

In my view, the essays collected in this volume provide a rich set of landmarks in a terrain that a great many regulatory practitioners—financial and otherwise—are already exploring. This volume helps clarify the aspirations of modern regulatory professionals as they confront increasingly complex and rapidly evolving risks. It highlights the strategic and organizational challenges a supervisory agency faces when it shifts its overarching framework from compliance-management to risk-control. And it provides an illuminating collection of innovative ideas, many of which could readily and usefully be translated into other regulatory settings.  I heartily commend it to you.  Malcolm K. Sparrow, Professor of the Practice of Public Management at the Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA, USA