OECD's campaign against harmful tax practices, and then with the Financial Stability Forum's investigation in 1999 into whether they contribute to world financial instability.

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Central bank liquidity policy needs refining and harmonising, as the Financial Stability Forum, a group of banking-industry regulators, made clear in a report in April.

ECONOMIST: Bank liquidity

This completed a hat-trick: on May 25th, a report on bank supervision from the Financial Stability Forum, a group of international regulators, had ranked the islands in the lowest grade.

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Inclusion as part of the Financial Stability Forum, a group of regulators and central bankers charged with the technicalities of financial supervision, may also make them more willing to support an expansion of the fund.

ECONOMIST: The G20 in London

Since the G20 leaders first met in November, their deputies have laboured on reforms to the stricken global financial system, in particular through the Financial Stability Forum (FSF), a Basel-based group that met in London this week.

ECONOMIST: The G20

Secretary General and the international Financial Stability Forum will also be on hand at the summit.

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But its admonition on this point is general and couched as a task for the IMF and Financial Stability Forum, although neither has direct control over regulators.

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