Spencer Stuart/Directors & Boards Directors Roster. (K - Z).
LARSCOM INC. Milpitas, CA has added to its board: Allen R. Adams Bio Notes: Has more than 28 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Most recently served as director and general manager of the broadband telephony business unit of Cisco...

How large is the federal financial safety net?
In the 1980s and early 1990s, U.S. taxpayers paid $130 billion to make good on the federal government's guarantee to protect depositors in thrift institutions (U.S. GAO 1996: 14). The crisis affecting thrifts in the late 1980s exhausted the funds that had been set aside by the deposit insurance...

Foreign banks: what do we know?
In their twenty years since their entry into Australia, foreign bank performance has been considered a failure. This paper will canvass this and related issues and argue that some of these perceptions may have been based upon inappropriate expectations. It will be argued that the foreign banks have been...

Unemployment and the Independent European System of Central Banks: prospects and some alternative arrangements.
I Introduction This paper has two related objectives. The first is to scrutinize the case for an Independent European System of Central Banks (hereafter IESCB), which is rejected on the grounds that it would worsen the performance of the real economy. The second objective is to propose an...

Appraisal Institute visits China to explore potential possibilities.
THE SUSTAINED ECONOMIC GROWTH IN CHINA over the last 10 years has created vast, dynamic and exciting real estate markets and enormous opportunities for real estate professionals. Although the government owns all land and exerts more control over enterprises than in the United States, development in China exhibits many...

Current Directions in Financial Regulation: Proceedings of a Conference Sponsored by the John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, Queen's University.
Edited by FRANK MILNE and EDWIN H. NEAVE. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2005. Pp. 248. $29.95 (paper); $75.00 (cloth) This volume makes available the proceedings of the Fourth National Conference on Financial Regulation, held in Toronto in May 2004. The conference organizers sought to bring...

Main Street or Bay Street: the only choices?
Sweeping changes in the financial world have brought the Canadian financial services industry to a fork in the road. Down one path -- we might call it Bay Street -- is an internationally competitive banking system consisting of a few large banks. For some financial services, however, Bay Street...

THE ONLINE BANKING BANDWAGON BACKFIRES.
Shilpa Mathai reports from the Gulf on the online banking frenzy which has, so far, failed to take off as predicted. Online banking is the latest e-buzzword in the Middle East. Banks across the region are scrambling to offer electronic banking, but whether the returns from such...

The Democrats Bow to the Megabanks.
Never underestimate the ability of Congress to repeat its mistakes. A decade ago, after it gambled and lost on deregulation, Congress was forced to launch a $500 billion taxpayer-financed bailout of the savings and loan industry. Congress has just rolled the deregulation dice again. This time, the outcome may...

Arab banking.
In the first of a two-part special report, MOIN SlDDIQI examines the performance of regional banks. In this month's issue the concentration is on financial institutions in the Gulf states. The Arab banks, as a consequence of a rapid environmental changes in the 1980s, have had to adjust to...