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Risk and regulatory reforms in the securities industry: a need for a paradigm shift?

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  • Anastassios Gentzoglanis

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The recent worldwide developments in financial markets have ignited the debate about the best approach to regulation of the securities industries. Given that systemic risk reduction is getting into the realm of objectives of the regulatory agencies, new approaches to regulation are called for. Walsh (2008) proposes an alternative mechanism, dubbed institutional-based regulation, as a means of reducing systemic risk. Anand (2009) dispels Walsh's framework by arguing that it does not constitute a new regulatory model, but it is simply a variation of the rules-based regulation. I argue that Walsh's model, as it stands, cannot adequately reduce systemic risk. To do so, securities regulators need to shift paradigm and adopt a new one dubbed regulation by information. Under this paradigm, regulators could reduce systemic risk by becoming 'information providers' during the upward movement of the securities industries and revert back to the traditional rules- or principles-based regulation during protracted periods of equilibrium.

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  • Anastassios Gentzoglanis, 2010. "Risk and regulatory reforms in the securities industry: a need for a paradigm shift?," International Journal of Financial Markets and Derivatives, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 1(4), pages 452-469.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijfmkd:v:1:y:2010:i:4:p:452-469
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