Select Committee · Treasury Committee

Financial Institutions - Too Important To Fail?

Status: Closed Opened: 19 Jan 2010 Closed: 12 Apr 2010

Background Information At the height of the financial crisis, Governments authorised a massive injection of public funds to rescue ailing private financial institutions in order to prevent a collapse of the financial system. There was general agreement of the need to minimise the risk of this re-occurring both because of the cost to the public …