General Sites

Regulation and supervision

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision:
www.bis.org/bcbs/aboutbcbs.htm

Financial Stability Institute (FSI)
www.bis.org/fsi/index.htm

The ECB-CFS research network:
www.eu-financial-system.org

The Euro Homepage on the website of Giancarlo Corsetti:
www.econ.yale.edu/~corsetti/euro

The Financial Services Action Plan website, full of reports and legal texts:
europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/finances/actionplan

The Financial Services Roundtable (an industry group) for the private sector viewpoint:
www.fsround.org

Lots of facts about the industry:
www.financialservicesfacts.org/financial

International role of the Euro

Facts and analysis from the ECB (this is an annual report). For the latest see:
www.ecb.int/pub
Search for 'Review of the foreign exchange market structure'.
The 2003 report can be found at:
www.ecb.int/home/html/index.en.html

An insightful speech by Michael Mussa (Chicago Professor and former chief economist of the IMF), 'Reflections on the International Role of the Euro':
www.euro50.org/past/2001/Mussa.doc