High & Low Finance: In Basel, an Eternal Work in Progress

Thu, 07/29/2010 - 16:29 EDT  in
 

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision that was supposed to toughen worldwide banking regulations seems caught in an endless battle to do so.


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