In his recent speech to the annual, elite central-banking conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the Bank of England’s Andy Haldane made a forceful plea for a return to simplicity in banking regulation. Haldane rightly complained that banking regulation has evolved from a small number of very specific guidelines to mind-numbingly complicated statistical algorithms for measuring risk and capital adequacy.
在怀俄明州杰克森霍尔举行的精英央行年会演讲中，英格兰银行的安迪·霍尔丹（Andy Haldane）大声疾呼要求回归简单银行监管。霍尔丹正确地指出，银行监管已从为数较少的极为具体的指导方针转变为计算风险和资本充足性的复杂得令人头晕的统计算术了。