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Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on February 20, 2014
By Finn Poschmann
To reduce the consequences of financial failures, the federal government should encourage provincial institutions to scale back insurance offered depositors
The global financial crisis drove deposit insurance on to the international regulatory agenda. And in Canada, generous provincial deposit insurance expansions, since 2008…
Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on February 19, 2014
By Finn Poschmann
Since the 2008 financial crisis, international and domestic financial regulation, such as Dodd-Frank legislation in the U.S., has emerged as an horrifically complex and prescriptive beast. What is striking about the new rules, here and elsewhere, is that they make little use of market incentives. Which is unfortunate,…