One can question if the root causes of the financial crisis were lack of regulation and that the OTC derivatives markets were not properly monitored.
Surely the explosion of OTC derivative contracts was an effect of the credit expansion started in the early 80-ties rather than the other way round. The main cause behind the large swings is too much debt. We need to keep that in the back of our mind.
I have studied the work by the EU commission on regulation of OTC derivatives . What strikes me is that regulating separate areas independently seems to be easier than putting the new regulatory framework into context. I am particularly struck by the limited perspective of the discussion. It mainly revolves around banks and other financial institutions when it actually affects the whole society. The corporates are only involved in the periphery of the regulatory discussions.
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