October, 2002, Tim Jones, “Clearing and settlement: Monopoly or market?”. (£25/$40/€45) An argument for breaking monopoly mindset for ACHs.  ISBN 0-9543145-1-4

September, 2001 McCabe, Bill: "The Short-Term Price Effects of Popular Share Recommendations" (£25/$40)

May, 2001 Lascelles, David: "Waking up to the FSA" (£25/$40)

January, 2001 Mocroft, Tim: "Bridging the Equity Gap" (£25/$40)

August, 2000 Hilton, Andrew and Lascelles, David. "iX: bigger or just better? A timely look at the shortcomings of the proposed LSE/Deutsche Boerse merger. (£25/$40)

June, 2000 Banking Banana Skins 2000: The CSFI’s latest survey of what UK bankers feel are the biggest challenges facing them. (25/$40)

April, 2000 Hilton, Andrew: "Internet banking: A fragile flower" Pricking the consensus by asking whether retail banking really is the Internet’s "killer app". (£25/$40)

March, 2000 McWilliam, Sir Michael: Reinventing the Commonwealth Development Corporation under Public-Private Partnership. (£25/$40)

November, 1999 Lascelles, David: "Europe’s new banks: The non-banks phenomenon". A report for euro-FIET on the threat posed by new technology to European bank’s traditional franchise. (£25/$40)

November, 1999 "In or Out". Maximising the benefits/minimising the costs of (temporary or permanent) non-membership of EMU. (£25/$40)

October, 1999 Townend, Tim: "A market comparable approach to the pricing of credit default swaps" A ISMA/CSFI Essay prize. (£25/$40)

June, 1999 Benjamin, Joanna and Sabalot, Deborah: "Embracing smoke: "The Internet and financial services regulation": A new regulatory framework is necessary for the Internet, most important ‘lose the paper’. (£6/$10)

April, 1999 Lascelles, David: "Quant & Mammon: Meeting the City’s requirements for post-graduate research and skills in financial engineering": A study for the EPSRC on the supply of and demand for quantative finance specialists in the UK, and on potential areas of City/academic collaboration. (£25/$40)

April, 1999 Hilton, Denis: "Psychology and the City: Applications to trading, dealing and investment analysis": A social psychologist looks at irrationality in the financial services sector. (£25/$40).

February, 1999 Lascelles, David: "Le Prix de l’Euro…Competition between London, Paris and Frankfurt". This report sizes up Europe’s leading financial centres at the launch of monetary union. (£25/$40).

November, 1998 "The Internet in ten years time: a CSFI survey". A survey of opinions about where the Internet is going, what the main obstacles are and who the winners/losers are likely to be. (£25/$40).

September, 1998 McDougall, Rosamund: "Cybercrime: tracing the evidence". A working group paper on how to combat Internet-related crime. (£6/US$10).

August, 1998 Manrakhan, Nandita: "The role of macro-economic policy in stock return predictability". The 1998 ISMA/CSFI prize-winning dissertation analyses how government policies affect stock values in markets in Japan and the Far East. (£25/$40).

July, 1998 Gilmore, Rosalind: "Mutuality for the 21^st Century". The former Building Societies Commissioner argues the case for mutuality, and proposes a new legislative framework to enable it to flourish. (£25/$40).

July, 1998 Banking Banana Skins: 1998. The fifth annual survey of possible shock to the system. (£25/$40).

June, 1998 Laslett, Robert and Taylor, Michael: "Independence and accountability: tweaking the Financial Services Authority. A proposal for fine-turning FSA governance. (£6/US$10).

May, 1998 Nye, Victoria: "Financial Education and the role of the regulator: the limits of caveat emptor". A brief note of warning to the FSA on what can and cannot realistically be expected of financial education. (£6/US$10).

March, 1998 "Emerald city bank…Banking in 2010". The future of banking by eminent bankers, economists and technologists. (£25/US$40).

February, 1998 Lascelles, David. "Accepting failure". A brief paper from the CSFI’s regulatory working group on the need for the new FSA explicitly to accept the likelihood that banks will fail. (£6/US$10).

February, 1998 Montagnon, Peter: "Credit where credit is due: Bringing microfinance into mainstream". Can lending small amounts of money to poor peasants ever be a mainstream business for institutional investors? (£25/US$40).

December, 1997 Shirreff, David: "The fall of Mulhouse Brand". The City of London’s oldest merchant bank collapses, triggering a global crisis. Can the regulators stave off disaster? A financial thriller based on a simulation conducted by the CSFI, with Euromoney and PA Consulting Group to test the international system of banking regulation. (£30/US$50).

November, 1997 Palmer, Ronan and White, Anthony: "Call in the red braces brigade…The case for electricity derivatives". Why the UK needs an electricity derivatives market, and how it can be achieved. (£25/US$40).

October, 1997 Pavlou, Stavros: Foreign Currency Exotic Options. A trading simulator for innovative dealers in foreign currency (with disc). Winner of the 1997 ISMA/CSFI Prize for financial innovation. (£25/US$40).

June, 1997 The Internet and Financial Services: a CSFI report (Available from City and Financial. To order a copy, tel: 01483 720 707; fax: 01483 740 603. (£45).

April, 1997 Banking Banana Skins: 1997 The latest survey showing how bankers might slip up over the next two to three years. (£25/US$40).

December, 1996 Lascelles, David: The Crash of 2003: An EMU fairy tale An all too plausible scenario of what might happen if EMU precedes economic convergence. (£25/US$40)

November, 1996 Record, Neil: "Central bank intervention: a new approach." New techniques for managing exchange rates. (£25/US$40).

October, 1996 Taylor, Michael: "Peak Practice: How to reform the UK’s regulatory system." Implementing "Twin Peaks" (£25/US$40).

May, 1996 Dobson, Andrew: "Welfare: A radical rethink -- The Personal Welfare Plan". A proposal (by a banker) for the private funding of health, education, unemployment etc. through a lifetime fund. (£25/US$40).

March, 1996 "Banking Banana Skins III": The likely causes of the next banking crisis. The findings of a survey of senior UK figures into where the perceived risks in the financial system lie (£25/US$40).

December, 1995 Taylor, Michael: "Twin Peaks": A regulatory structure for the new century. A proposal to reform UK financial regulation by splitting systemic concerns from those involving consumer protection. (£25/US$40)

October, 1995 Taylor, Charles: Options and currency intervention. A radical proposal on the use of currency option strategies for central banks. (£20/US$35)

September, 1995 Angela Knight; Alistair Darling, Peter White, Peter Birch, Bert Ely and Karel Lannoo: "The UK building societies: Do they have a future?". A collection of essays on the future of UK building societies and mutuality. (£20/$35)

August, 1995 de Jacquelot, Patrick: The City under threat A leading French journalist worries about complacency in the City of London. (£20/$35)

July, 1995 Ely, Bert: Bringing market-driven regulation to European banking: A proposal for 100 per cent cross-guarantees. A proposal for eliminating systemic banking risk by using cross-guarantees. (£25/$40)

May, 1995 Levitt, Malcolm: Economic and Monetary Union Stage III: The issues for banks. Banks may be underestimating the impact of Maastricht's small print. (£25/$40)

March, 1995 An environmental risk rating for Scottish Nuclear. An experimental rating of a nuclear utility. (£25/$40)

February, 1995 Collin, Nick: Banks as providers of information security services. Banks have a privileged position as transmitters of secure data: they should make a business of it. (£25/US$40)

January, 1995 Mackintosh, Ian: Liquidity ratings for bonds. A proposed methodology for measuring the liquidity of issues by scoring the most widely accepted components, and aggregating them into a liquidity rating. (£25/US$40)

December, 1994 Moorhead, Simon and Graeme Faulds: Technology and financial services, 1994 Prize-Winning Essays. The two winning essays for the 1994 IBM/CSFI Prize (£10/US$20)

November, 1994 McMahon, Sir Kit; Sir Nicholas Goodison; Bruce Pattullo; John Melbourn and Philippa Foster-Back: Banking Banana Skins Il. Four leading UK bankers and a senior corporate treasurer discuss lessons for the future from the last banking crisis. (£25/US$40)

October, 1994 Roger-Machart, Jacques: A Euro-Arab investment company. A proposal for a new public/private development finance corporation to promote employment-generating projects in the Arab world. (£25/US$40)

July, 1994 Taylor, Charles: A new approach to setting capital requirements for banks. A proposal for a market-based alternative, using the concept of 'value-at-risk', to the present mechanistic Basle approach to setting bank capital requirements. (£35/US$55)

June, 1994 Mayer, Martin; John Plender; Brooke Unger; Robin Monro-Davies and Keith Brown: Banking Banana Skins. The first in a periodic series of papers looking at where the next financial crisis is likely to spring from. (£25/US$40)

May, 1994 Hilton, Andrew: UK financial regulation: A blueprint for change. A radical proposal for reform of UK financial regulation, (prepared pseudononymously by a senior commercial banker). (£25/US$40)

March, 1994 de Bono, Edward: The IBM dollar. A proposal for the wider use of "target" currencies, i.e. forms of public or private money that can be used only for specific purposes. (£15/US$25)

January, 1994 Laird, Paul: Electronic share-dealing for the private investor. An examination of new ways to broaden retail share ownership, inter alia, by utilising ATM networks, PCs, etc. (£25/US$40)

December, 1993 Lascelles, David: Rating environmental risk . A proposal for a new rating scheme that would assess a company's environmental exposure against its financial ability to manage that exposure. (£25/US$40)

November, 1993 Dobson, Andrew: Derivatives for the retail client. A proposal to permit retail investors access to the risk management aspects of financial derivatives, currently available only at the wholesale level. (£20/US$35)

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