At a time of unprecedented volatility on financial markets and far-reaching change within the banking and insurance sector, the latest issue of How Countries Supervise their Banks, Insurers and Securities Markets - published in January 2008 - is an invaluable guide to this fast-changing world. With the UK’s Northern Rock crisis leading many to question the effectiveness of the tripartite regulatory system and of the UK’s much-vaunted principles-led regulation, this directory provides full contact details for bank, insurance and securities regulators around the world. Exclusive tables provide at-a-glance information about when key national regulatory bodies were first established, details about the institutional separation of regulators around the world and our unique list of unified financial regulators. Regulators and practitioners are legally obliged to understand how the world' s financial regulatory authorities regulate financial firms. Yet counterparties can operate from any one of almost two hundred jurisdictions. Ensuring adequate understanding becomes doubly difficult when regulatory responsibilities and critical legislation change each year.