Written by a leading financial analyst, this new book provides a detailed overview of the new regulatory environment facing the financial industry. Whilst the 1980s and early 1990s focused on deregulation within the financial sector, today a key point of interest has become re-regulation - and in a global setting. The new rules of supervision stress transparency and market discipline, which has an impact on trading strategies and lending patterns as well as ways of managing assets and liabilities.Written for analysts, traders, technologists and managers of financial institutions, this book provides coverage of the aftermath of this new regulatory environment, and the implications of globalisation and technological developments.