Towards a Safer World of Banking: Bank Regulations After the Sub-Prime Crisis

The book contends that, while several factors can be blamed for the financial crisis of 2007, a failure of regulation was the most important one. The changes to bank regulation that have happened since are not good enough to make the banking system a great deal safer than before We need to look at radical, out-of-the-box solutions if another major financial upheaval is to be prevented.