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:UK Banking Act 2009[http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2009/pdf/ukpga_20090001_en.pdf] (including the Special Resolution Regime[[http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/bankingact09_buildingsocieties_order.htm] | :UK Banking Act 2009[http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2009/pdf/ukpga_20090001_en.pdf] (including the Special Resolution Regime[[http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/bankingact09_buildingsocieties_order.htm] | ||
:"Basel 3": Enhancements to the Basel II framework[http://www.bis.org/press/p090713.htm][http://www.bis.org/publ/bcbs157.pdf?noframes=1] | |||
Revision as of 11:06, 23 January 2010
1244 Genoa's Leccacorvo bank[1]
1609 Amsterdam Wisselbank founded[2] - the first central bank.
1694 Formation of the Bank of England[3]
1863 US National Bank Act sets minimum reserve ratios
1866 Overend-Gurney collapse causes banking panic [4]
1890 Barings crisis. Bank of England organises rescue of Barings bank by Rothschilds
1913 US National Reserve Act creates the Federal Reserve System
1930-33 The Banking crises of the Great Depression
1933 The Banking Act of 1933 creates The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation[5]
- US The Glass-Steagall Act [6]
1980 US Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act[7]
1986 UK Building Societies Act[8]
1988 Basel I[9] (The Basel Capital Accord)
1989 US Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act[10]
1995 UK Barings bank failure [11].
1999 US Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act[12] - repealed the Glass Steagall Act of 1933, and introduced other changes including expanding the Federal Home Loan Bank System.
2002 US Sarbanes-Oxley Act[13][14]
2006 Basel II[15] (Revised International Capital Framework)
2007 French bank BNP Paribas freezes funds because it is .unable to value its US mortgage-backed assets. [16]
2008
- Bear Stearns bought by J P Morgan Chase & Co for $2 a share[17] [18] (with $30 billion support from the Federal Reserve)
- Bank of England announces its Special Liquidity Scheme[19] (to allow banks to swap temporarily their high quality mortgage-backed and other securities for UK Treasury Bills)
- Lehman Brothers becomes bankrupt [20] with losses of $365 billion to insurers of its bonds.
2009
- More bank failures and rescues
- UK Banking Act 2009[21] (including the Special Resolution Regime[[22]
- "Basel 3": Enhancements to the Basel II framework[23][24]