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Too Important to Fail: Regulating Critical Third Parties in the UK

25 October 2022

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Andrew Henderson

'Never again' (or not?)—The European bail-in regime has yet to solve the systemic problem of implicit government guarantees

'Never again' was the impassioned conviction of governments worldwide after being forced to bail out banking institutions and provide guarantees and capital to avert systemic collapse as a result of...

25 January 2021

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Taming the Megabanks: Why We Need a New Glass-Steagall Act

Banks became major participants in US securities markets twice in the past century—during the 1920s and after the mid-1990s. Both times, banks with ‘universal banking’ powers originated risky loans and...

16 October 2020

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Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr.

Prelude to Glass-Steagall: Abusive Securities Practices by National City Bank and Chase National Bank During the 'Roaring Twenties'

From the late 1990s through 2008, the United States experienced the largest boom-and- bust cycle in its securities and housing markets since the “Roaring Twenties” and the Great Depression. Scholars...

4 September 2016

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Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr.

Principles of Financial Regulation: Bank Governance

According to a common narrative, in addition to inadequate capital and liquidity, the failure of banks in the financial crisis also reflected their poor governance. By ‘governance’, I mean broadly...

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