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. How Countries Supervise their Banks, Insurers and Securities Markets 2007 offers a solution to this dilemma. It shows how financial institutions are supervised in all 196 jurisdictions. This completely updated edition offers readers: Expanded country profiles giving an overview of regulation in the two dozen most important financial centres; Named anti-money-laundering contacts within regulatory agencies; A unique guide to the international regulatory standard-setters.