Howard Davies
The first chairman of the United Kingdom’s Financial Services Authority.
Mar 9 , 2025 . By Howard Davies
The weather in Basel, Switzerland, remains wintry and cold. And the climate inside th...
Nov 30 , 2024 . By Howard Davies
In 2023, emboldened – or perhaps stung – by the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and a few other mid-size institutions, the US Federal Re...
Apr 6 , 2024 . By Howard Davies
The final proposals for bank capital rules were dubbed Basel 3.1, as if to suggest a minor tidying-up exercise – just a few grace notes ad...
Dec 19 , 2020 . By Howard Davies
There is a vast academic literature on central bank independence, and central bank governors address the...
May 9 , 2026
The Ethiopian state appears to have discovered a fiscal instrument that is politicall...
May 2 , 2026
By the time Ethiopia's National Dialogue Commission (ENDC) reached the end of its fir...
Apr 25 , 2026
In a political community, official speeches show what governments want their citizens...
For much of the past three decades, Ethiopia occupied a familiar place in the Western...