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Here is where I am at loggerheads with laissez-faire ideology, which contends that free markets are self-sustaining and that market excesses correct themselves, provided governments or regulators don’t interfere with the self-correcting mechanism.
That assumption may yield a hypothetical equilibrium, but has little relevance to actual market behavior, and neither market operators nor regulators fully accept the theory because they are rational people.
The resulting momentum will create pressure for ministries, regulators, and other policymaking bodies – which may be the most resistant to change – to take complementary steps.
But regulators and fintech firms should take note of examples like Alipay to develop rational strategic possibilities for this emerging sector.
State insurance regulators resist rate increases, but they are ultimately powerless, because insurers can simply take their business elsewhere.
This is higher than that of regulators in other major countries.
Not only did Chinese regulators enable the bubble’s growth by allowing retail investors – many of them newcomers to the market – to engage in margin trading (using borrowed money); the policy response to the market correction that began in late June has also been highly problematic.
Making matters worse, when the current stock-market correction began in early June, Chinese regulators relaxed margin-buying restrictions, while encouraging state-owned enterprises and asset managers to purchase more stocks.
If Chinese regulators allow the market to correct, sophisticated institutional investors with a long-term value orientation will ultimately step in, enhancing the market’s stability.
Former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, the world’s leading financial regulator of the past quarter century, seemed to have little faith in either regulators or the need for regulation.
In an April 2008 article in The Financial Times, he wrote, “Bank loan officers, in my experience, know far more about the risks and workings of their counterparties than do bank regulators.”
But the attack would have come from investors, not regulators.
These and similar phrases have been common currency among American legislators, regulators, and financial firms for decades.
There are lessons here for regulators.
Money-Market ResistanceCAMBRIDGE – The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently rejected proposed rules aimed at making money-market funds safer in a financial crisis – a rejection that has caused consternation among observers and other regulators.
So the mutual-fund industry had the regulators all to itself.
Its lobbyists told the SEC commissioners that current rules already did everything possible to ensure safety; that retail investors want money-market funds’ steady value; that change would hurt all investors; and that the recent Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation disrupts regulators’ ability to bail out money-market funds next time.
Other regulators were watching, as were academics and journalists – and some regulators may now feel compelled to take over the money-market safety rules from the SEC or push the SEC back into action.
In a few countries, private-sector participation in electricity companies, coupled with new independent regulators, has resulted in greater and more efficient power generation and higher employment, while doubling the number of subscribers.
It will become safer still in the coming years, provided that governments, plant operators, and regulators do not drop their guard.
Indeed, governments, regulators, and plant operators around the world have begun learning the right lessons.
Plant operators and national regulators are being scrutinized more critically.
They need to invest considerable time and money in training scientists and engineers, establishing genuinely independent, well-funded regulators, and putting in place the necessary technical infrastructure.
But, in order to regain and maintain public confidence, governments, regulators, and operators must be transparent about the benefits and risks of nuclear power – and honest when things go wrong.
The repeal can – and should induce regulators to reassess their approach.
If the banks are successfully lobbying for the right to pursue riskier activities, regulators should consider raising their capital requirements.
Furthermore, financial regulators in developing countries are more willing to help channel private finance toward green investment.
Regulators in Nigeria and China, for example, have established green risk-assessment and reporting requirements.
Regulators are now appreciably tougher and more intrusive than their counterparts in New York.
Politicians and regulators are exploring a number of options, from higher tax rates, through fines for certain types of bonus arrangements, to variable capital requirements.
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