Martin Wolf on why banks fail and what to do about it
Behind the Money
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Option Two: Tighten Regulation and Improve Transparency of Banks
Left to the free market without any rules on capital and liquidity, we know just leads to enormous banking crashes. With option two, a bank like SVB would be in the same regulatory net as the banking giants. But Martin says there's a third option here. The third possibility is to strengthen radically,. This would reduce the problems we've talked about, strengthen the soundness of banks which are by and large the same sorts of institutions that we've known in the past.
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