financial reform
Banking system changes
Financial reform refers to changes in laws, regulations, or institutions governing banking, investment, and monetary systems.
Reforms typically respond to crises or abuses: The 2008 crash prompted sweeping financial reform.
Goals include preventing fraud, reducing systemic risk, protecting consumers, or increasing market transparency.
The term can describe anything from minor regulatory adjustments to fundamental restructuring of how money flows through an economy.
- complianceAdhering to requirements
- restructuringRearranging an existing framework
- liquidityConvertibility to cash
- tax incentivesGovernment breaks encouraging actions
- bank runPanicked mass withdrawal
oversight · privatization · Wall Street · legislation · budget allocation · stress testing · Glass-Steagall · governance · revolving door · skin in the game · nationalization · fraud prevention · mergers · capital requirements · quantitative easing · deficit reduction · acquisitions · clearinghouses
- reformsderegulation, privatising, labor laws, liberalization
- securitiessecurities, shares, equities, bonds, stocks
- US bankingFDIC, Fed, national banks, bank runs, bank failures
- financial fraudsecurities fraud, bank fraud, accounting fraud, defalcation, embezzler
- public financepublic debt, budget deficit, tax revenue, budgets, expenditure
- French taxationcapitation, corvee, aides, salt tax, direct taxes
financial reformderegulation
Removing governmental business restrictions
financial deregulation · laissez-faire · liberalization · free-market policies · self-regulation
financial reformcrony capitalism
Economy favoring the connected
financial misconduct · predatory lending · financial fraud · market manipulation · systemic risk
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