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 …