The international financial crisis has started to think about various regulators on the need to tighten the bankers and various companies in the sector.

Reports of the Ministry of Finance warned that the lack of financial regulation and the possibility of creating financial engineering titles mortgages generated a flooded, uncontrolled growth of the securities market, even beyond the borders of the U.S. economy.

Given this behavior, authorities such as the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has a series of consultative documents containing regulatory proposals following the above-mentioned crisis.

In this regard, Asobancaria emphasizes that there is a tendency to make more stringent regulatory requirements on capital. This means that from one perspective to adopt more prudent standards from another, say the bankers, may involve some capital requirements for banks that can be expensive.

This suggests that, if adopted the recommendations that are being aired, may mean a deterioration in international capital flows, instead of flowing to profitable projects in emerging economies, should be used to capitalize financial institutions in developed countries.

In February 2010 the investment of foreign equity participation stock surged 82.86 percent over the same period in 2009.

We reports show that at the end of the first two months of 2010 funds in its portfolio were 6.47 billion pesos in equity securities (shares), while in 2009, this value stood at 3.54 trillion pesos.

According to experts, the international financial crisis which originated on the mortgage market in the United States prompted investors to viraran their looks to emerging countries like Colombia, which led to a spike in share value even exceeded 50 percent in 2009.

These figures are in line with the reports submitted by the CSE under which the trading volume in shares during December 2009 was 5.37 billion dollars, 84.80 percent more compared to December 2008, when it negotiated 2 90 billion pesos.

In addition to this, in the first two months of 2010, the IGBC has achieved a growth of 1.05 percent.

Tied to this turnaround is the fact that the Colombian economy during 2009 has registered a growth of 0.4 percent compared to 2008, when the expected months ago was even negative.

However, at the end of 2009 the portfolio of investment funds with foreign capital participation stock stood at 6.76 billion pesos, which shows that in the first quarter of 2010 a decline equivalent to 4.29 percent 291 billion pesos.

However, the news-side investments in debt securities are not the best.

Why? while in February 2009, the portfolio of foreign equity funds in debt securities stood at 1.56 trillion pesos, the figure at the end of the first two months of 2010 fell to 1.33 billion pesos.

The trend in the bond market internationally, emphasizes we was slightly downward, given the increase in spreads on sovereign bonds increased perception of risk in some European countries. He adds that in Colombia, was a downward trend in the value of long-term TES, but an increase in the value of the roles for shorter periods.