^* Kathleen A. Scott is counsel in the financial institutions practice at Arnold & Porter LLP.

^† This text was not reproduced in the ILM but is available at the Bank for International Settlements website, <http://www.bis.org/publ/bcbs146.htm> (visited March 10, 2009).

^* This text was reproduced and reformatted from the text available at Group of Twenty website: (visited March 10, 2009) <http://www.g20.org/Documents/g20_summit_declaration.pdf>

^* This text was reproduced and reformatted from the text available at the Group of Thirty: (visited March 10, 2009) <http://group30.org/pubs/reformreport.pdf>

¹ See the official G-20 website, at http://www.g20.org/about_what_is_g20.aspx (last visited Feb. 23, 2009).

² The 19 countries are: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

³ The current members come from Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. The current chair is the President of the Netherlands Central Bank.

⁴ See the official Basel Committee website, at http://www.bis.org/bcbs/index.htm (last visited Feb. 23, 2009).

⁵ See the official Group of Thirty website, at http://www.group30.org (last visited Feb. 23, 2009).

⁶ Progress will be discussed at the next meeting of the G-20 on April 2, 2009, in London.