VIEWPOINT: Financial Regulators Need Better Data

The financial crisis has revealed that regulators do not have access to the data and tools they need to assess counterparty links and monitor financial system robustness. In the spirit of the National Academy of Science, the NIF would act as a clearing house for ideas and problems between industry a...

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Published inThe American banker Vol. 174; no. 57
Main Authors Mendelowitz, Allan I, Liechty, John C
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, N.Y SourceMedia 25.03.2009
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Computer centers
Information sharing
Regulation of financial institutions
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Summary:The financial crisis has revealed that regulators do not have access to the data and tools they need to assess counterparty links and monitor financial system robustness. In the spirit of the National Academy of Science, the NIF would act as a clearing house for ideas and problems between industry and a broader research community - identifying essential problems, sponsoring the sustained research efforts needed to solve these problems and integrating solutions into a rigorously tested, well-understood set of models.\n
ISSN:0002-7561
1945-578X