Regulation of banks, securities markets, corporate financial disclosure and Islamic finance standards. Belongs here: the Basel Accords as international bank capital standards, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Fair Credit Reporting Act as a regulator of consumer credit information, and the AAOIFI Shariah Standards governing Islamic financial institutions. Does not belong here: a statute regulating market structure through competition rather than financial conduct, grouped under competition and antitrust law instead.
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Defining CharacteristicFinancial regulation is a broad set of policies applying to the financial sector, justified by systemic risk and information asymmetry. 1 All Financial and Securities Regulation
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Financial regulation is a broad set of policies that apply to the financial sector in most jurisdictions, justified by two main features of finance: systemic risk, which implies that the failure of financial firms involves public interest considerations; and information asymmetry.
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