The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

Charles Goodhart CBE, FBA is Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance and a member of the Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics and Political Science, having previously served as the group's Deputy Director from 1987 to 2005. From 1985 until his retirement in 2002, he was the Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and Finance at the LSE. Before moving into academia he worked at the Bank of England for seventeen years as a monetary advisor, becoming a chief advisor in 1980.

• List of figures; List of tables; Foreword Nout Wellink; Background and acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. The antecedents of the BCBS; 3. Modus operandi: chairmen, secretariat, members, the structure of meetings; 4. The Concordat; 5. External and foreign exchange issues; 6. Capital adequacy and the Basel Accord of 1988; 7. The Market Risk Amendment; 8. The core principles of banking supervision; 9. Liquidity; 10. Off balance sheet exposures and derivatives; 11. Other topics addressed by the BCBS; 12. The relationship of the BCBS with banks and other banking regulators; 13. Relationships with other non-bank oversight and supervisory bodies; 14. The legal position of the BCBS; 15. The international relations of the BCBS; 16. BCBS and the social sciences; 17. Epilogue; Index.

'Mr Goodhart has produced an in-depth and comprehensive narrative on the history of the world's banking regulator. A compelling account in its own right, his description of the evolution of the Basel standards is as relevant as ever as policymakers contemplate sound responses to the recent crisis.' Jaime Caruana, General Manager, Bank for International Settlements