The Bank for International Settlements has released a collection of 10 papers from a conference held in November 2011 on the relationship between financial regulation and growth, equity and stability.

The Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Scott O’Malia, argued that the Volcker Rule is too complex, and may fall short of providing an appropriate foundation for a rigorous and reliable rulemaking process.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has revised its 2006 Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision, and has merged the document with its Core Principles Methodology.

The Joint Forum has released for consultation principles which provide national authorities, standard setters and supervisors with a set of internationally agreed principles that support consistent and effective supervision of financial conglomerates.

The Irish Takeovers Panel has proposed its third set of changes to the takeovers rules in the past year.

The Irish Law Reform Commission has launched a consultation paper on insurance contracts which assesses current insurance contract law and makes a number of detailed recommendations on potential reform of the law in this area.

The Financial Reporting Council has issued a consultation paper on whether the UK Corporate Governance Code should be revised to require listed companies to publish their policy on gender diversity in the boardroom and report against it annually.

The Financial Reporting Council, following feedback from its consultation paper, Gender Diversity on Boards, has announced changes to the UK Corporate Governance Code aimed at promoting greater gender diversity at board level.

The Irish Funds Industry Association has published a Corporate Governance Code for Collective Investment Schemes and Management Companies.