Under growing pressure from within and outside their economies, countries around the world have embarked upon wide-ranging programmes of financial reform. This handbook provides country studies of contemporary developments in financial reform in a selection of both developed and developing countries from Western Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Australia. The outcome is an account of the contemporary world- wide attempt to refashion the way in which the financial services industry (and especially the banking sector) is regulated and supervised. Table of Contents Financial reform in Australia, Kevin Davis price stabilization, the banking crisis and financial reform in Brazil, Roberto Luis Troster financial reform in Canada - past, present and future, Pierre L. Siklos financial system reform in China, Margot Schueller financial reform in Germany, Beate Reszat financial reform in Hong Kong, Y.C. Jao financial reform in Italy, Marco Onado financial reform in Japan, Akio Kuroda financial sector reform in Singapore, Kee Jin Ngiam financial reform in Thailand, Andy Mullineux, Victor Murinde, Adisorn Pinijkulviwat financial reform in the UK, D.H. Gowland fincancial reform in Vietnam, Rainer Klump, Klaus Gottwald