Such disclosures also provide incentives for banks - the disclosers - to adopt better risk-management techniques and to link their capital requirements to their risk profiles. All these results will enable the public to make comparisons among banks more easily.
Some thoughts on the most recent backslide on the financial markets  I could have closed my speech with this rather positive outlook not even two weeks ago. However, since then the crisis has again raised its head, this time exposing the weak position of government budgets in some euro-area countries.