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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Regulation And Supervision Of Banks : The Post Crisis Regulatory Responses Of The Eu by Chen Chen Hu
Over the past two decades, the banking industry has expanded and consolidated at a stunningly unprecedented speed. In this time banks have also moved from focusing purely on commercial banking activities to being heavily involved in market-based and transaction-oriented wholesale and investment banking activities. By carrying out an all-encompassing set of activities, banks have become large, complex, interconnected, and inclined to levels of risk-taking not previously seen. With the onset of the 2008 global financial crisis it became apparent that there was an issue of institutions being too big to fail. _x000D_
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This book analyses the too-big-to-fail problem of banks in the EU. It approaches the topic from an interdisciplinary.show more