find out what works - and what doesn't - in one of the most important and hotly debated aspects of the future of the financial system A new and unique insider view of what actually works, what ought to work, what prevents it from working, and what needs to be done about it - industry experts who have to implement and work within regulatory systems give the real best practice picture The recent financial crisis has unleashed a flood of views on what happened, why it happened, and what new regulatory measures and structures might prevent or mitigate such crises in the future. Effective Bank Regulation and Supervision: Lessons from the Financial Crisis takes a different approach. Based on in-depth interviews with more than 30 senior, experienced bankers, regulators, consultants and others deeply involved in the regulatory process, it seeks to answer two key questions: Which bank regulators around the world have demonstrated relatively superior results in terms of regulatory outcomes? and What lessons for the future can be drawn from their experience? The result is a ground-breaking insight into the likely future success of bank regulation and the key factors which will determine such outcomes. Praise for Effective Bank Regulation and Supervision: Lessons from the Financial Crisis ..". Required reading for anyone with a stake in strengthening the financial system - which is pretty much all of us." Robert P. Kelly, Chairman and CEO, BNY Mellon "Steve Davis has always been innovative in looking at the banking industry, and in writing about its challenges and opportunities. Highlighting the various regulators' roles, both in their benefits and shortcomings, will usefully inform the debate on the future shape of the industry." Sir Win Bischoff, Chairman, Lloyds Banking Group plc "This is a tour de force of bank regulation. Steve Davis provides an excellent insight into bank regulatory systems, investigating the mechanics of who got it right and who failed in providing appropriate oversight of their banking systems over the crisis. A series of lucid and insightful bank regulator case studies reports the experiences of key players and highlights major areas for reform. A must-read for anyone interested in bank regulation pre- and post-crisis." Professor Philip Molyneux, Bangor University

Since this book was first published four years ago, the pace of change in the banking world has accelerated and this updated version shows how specific banks have fared, how uniform the pressures for change are and the reasons for the decline in some banks.

Fiir denjenigen, der emt, welches Ereignis mich dazu angeregt hat, dieses Buch zu schreiben, ist kein Preis ausgesetzt. Die Lektiire von Auf der Suche nach Spitzenleistun gen der Autoren Robert Watennan und Thomas Peters war ein sehr wichtiges Ereignis in meinem 25jiibrigen Engagement als Bankanalytiker, Manager auf mittlerer Ebene, Chief Executive Officer* und Management-Berater im kommerziellen Bankgeschlift. Wahrend meiner gesamten Lautbahn gingen mir einige ungeloste Fragen wieder und wieder durch den Sinn. Sind Bank-Manager anders als die Manager in anderen Bran chen? Wird das Bankgeschlift tatsiichlich so schlecht gefiihrt, wie viele Beobachter glau ben? Wie gut bewiiltigen die Banken die Veriinderungen im Umfeld? Konnen Manager, die von auBen kommen, Banken besser fiihren, als solche, die in der Bank groB gewor den sind und traditionellerweise in den Chefetagen sitzen? Und da kommen die Herren Waterman und Peters und schlieBen bei der Auswahl ihrer Spitzenuntemehmen die Banken ganz bewuBt aus Hier liegt ein wegweisendes Buch vor, herausfordemd und in weiten Kreisen - bei Bankem und Millionen anderer Lese- als ein wohldurchdachter Rahmen ftir die Management-Tiitigkeit anerkannt; aber auch dieses Buch scheint wieder einmal deutlich zu machen, daB man Banken, wenn es urn das Management geht, nicht unbedingt als Beispiel heranziehen muB. Die Diskussion urn diese unterschwellig vorhandene Einstellung fiammte 1983 durch das Egon-Zehnder-Gutachten wieder auf, denn dieses belegte, daB es gleichwohl Banken mit hervorragenden Leistungen gibt - zumindest in den USA und im Urteil vergleichba rer amerikanischer Banken."

Based on in-depth interviews with more than 30 senior, experienced bankers, regulators, consultants, and others deeply involved in the regulatory process, this text provides the real best practice picture of what actually works, what ought to work, what prevents it from working, and what needs to be done about bank regulations.