This task includes enhancing the role of central counterparties, which can be an important tool for managing counterparty credit risk in the derivatives market; improving regulation and supervision of dealers and key market participants; introducing minimum margin requirements for certain derivatives transactions that are not cleared with a central counterparty; and increasing transparency.
One theory says that enterprises and banks – the large ones at least – belong to their shareholders, and should therefore be managed in their interests. Shareholders’ income rises and falls with the bank’s performance. The shareholders’ interests therefore lie chiefly in the enterprise’s long-term success.