Bank Regulation and Credit Rating Organizations

Roy Girasa

Chapter Chapter 5 in Laws and Regulations in Global Financial Markets, 2013, pp 155-205 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The banking crisis of 2008 is not unique in American banking history. Banks have had a long checkered past with major panics, federal–state conflict, calls for regulation and deregulation, fraud, and incompetence. Nevertheless, they also constituted the base upon which the United States expanded from a rural, agricultural, backwater economy to the remarkable strength it possesses today, both domestically and abroad. It began almost mystically with one of a number of brilliant men who led the British colony in the New World to a new nation, Alexander Hamilton. As the first Secretary of the Treasury, he had the vision to see the need for a central bank that would underlie the growth of the newly independent country. He proposed what later became the First Bank of the United States (1791–1811), which expanded with branches in a number of cities, along with state banks that also flourished in competition with each other.

Keywords: Credit Card; Commercial Bank; Hedge Fund; Bank Regulation; Investment Company (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137345462_5

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