Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: what is a bank? -- 2. The financial-regulatory cycle -- 3. Other ways of banking: the UK experience, 1945-70 -- 4. Competition and Credit Control and the secondary banking crisis -- 5. The Banking Act 1979 and Johnson Matthey Bankers -- 6. Returning to the question: how the financial-regulatory cycle creates financial instability -- 7. The City revolution, 1987 Banking Act and two international bank failures -- 8. New Labour reforms and the 2008 financial crisis -- 9. The post-crisis response and 10. Conclusion: banking regimes -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary
Far from creating stability, argues Andrew Whitworth, the regulatory impulse of policy-makers since the financial crisis has inevitably led to greater instability in the banking sector and fails to avoid future boom and bust cycles.
